Backyard project

The backyard project is complete, and I have been really lax in posting here about it, because I'm kind of tired and my back hurts a LOT from all the stuff there still is to do back there. Even when you pay someone to do most of the work, there's still a lot of ... work to do. Funny how that is. Some of the things have been changed -- I had to move some plants around due to sunlight issues (we finally had actual sunshine for one whole day, so I could see which plants were getting too much/not enough), and I have a lot of shape pruning to do, and plantings of my own.

The landscape designer really homed in on some things I said that weren't really what I wanted, and so I have to go out and get a lot of my own things. There is a ton of groundcovers -- about 100 of these little Japanese sedges alone, not to mention the hundreds of versions of sedums -- that I would have much preferred to be flowers, so that's kind of a drag. This is the hard part of ceding control to someone else to design something. I would have liked more time to have input and make plant changes; that's my biggest complaint and the thing I'm most unhappy about. So, lessons learned, on to the next project, I guess.

But it is a lot nicer, regardless of the plants I like. And everyone stops by on their walks to talk to me about it, and compliment it, and now I have some space and furniture to sit outside and sip wine with people, so that's all good. The kitties are loving it, though I think they miss some of their things, like the tree trunk they used to sit on and scratch on. I'm going to have to go find them a trunk. (And sorry, my livejournal layout cuts these off on the sides; you can see the whole pic by clicking it if you want.)

( Huge picspam ahead )

Backyard project

The backyard project is complete, and I have been really lax in posting here about it, because I'm kind of tired and my back hurts a LOT from all the stuff there still is to do back there. Even when you pay someone to do most of the work, there's still a lot of ... work to do. Funny how that is. Some of the things have been changed -- I had to move some plants around due to sunlight issues (we finally had actual sunshine for one whole day, so I could see which plants were getting too much/not enough), and I have a lot of shape pruning to do, and plantings of my own.

The landscape designer really homed in on some things I said that weren't really what I wanted, and so I have to go out and get a lot of my own things. There is a ton of groundcovers -- about 100 of these little Japanese sedges alone, not to mention the hundreds of versions of sedums -- that I would have much preferred to be flowers, so that's kind of a drag. This is the hard part of ceding control to someone else to design something. I would have liked more time to have input and make plant changes; that's my biggest complaint and the thing I'm most unhappy about. So, lessons learned, on to the next project, I guess.

But it is a lot nicer, regardless of the plants I like. And everyone stops by on their walks to talk to me about it, and compliment it, and now I have some space and furniture to sit outside and sip wine with people, so that's all good. The kitties are loving it, though I think they miss some of their things, like the tree trunk they used to sit on and scratch on. I'm going to have to go find them a trunk. (And sorry, my livejournal layout cuts these off on the sides; you can see the whole pic by clicking it if you want.)

( Huge picspam ahead )