For A Change of Pace...Sort Of :)

Instead of working on the backyard this weekend, we worked on the front yard :)  More specifically, one corner of the front yard that was driving us both nuts because of all the crazy plants!  I wish I had taken a "before" picture, but here are a few pictures to give you an idea of what we pulled out of the yard:



The roots of these plants looked like something out of "Pan's Labyrinth"!



Is anyone surprised that we found MORE rocks in our yard?  The people who lived here before us really loved to use rocks and bricks in the yard.



I love the old chip bags stuck in this old plant!

Michael did an amazing job clearing out all the craziness, leaving us with a blank canvas in the front yard:

We decided to leave the tree because it doesn't take a lot of water and it will look nice after a trim!  We left the rock because I could not move it :)

Home Depot was having a great sale on plants!  I like to buy plants when they are small, because it's cheaper and most plants grow pretty quickly.  Here's what we planned on planting:



A close up of the plants!

We picked mostly drought-tolerant plants, and plants that we thought would look a little more modern than what was out there before!

To me, planting is the fun part!  I'm not a fan of digging up old plants, so I was really happy to be planting! Here's what it looked like after we finished:

It might not look amazing now, but once the plants start growing it's going to look so much better!  Such an improvement over what it looked like before!