one year later

It's been a year since the landscapers came and cleared out the front yard. I'm pleased to report that the yard looks no worse than it did when they finished, and maybe even a little better. I'm really proud of all the work we've done over the past year. It would have been so easy to just keep ignoring the yard and let it get all overgrown again.

This fall we're going to build a raised bed inside the fence for the vegetable garden, and plant perennials all along the driveway where the vegetables are now. Also finish digging up the clay by the side of the house, and fill that bed with good soil. The plan is to put a cutting garden in there of mostly annuals. And I want to plant daylilies along the front of the fence, down by the road. Also dig up the butterfly garden & put all those plants along the driveway. Because the butterflies don't seem to find them where they are. Then we'll turn the butterfly garden into a bird garden, because the bird feeders are right there. And we need to mulch more heavily around the blueberries so they don't get overrun again.

And that's just the front yard! Whew! I can't wait for it to cool down so I can get back to work.