I still have a little trouble believing it but I actually talked Steve into working on the garden this weekend. We have a corner area that is pretty much the only area that gets a lot of sun. I have been wanting to get it cleaned up for quite a while so I could put some new plants in but we both knew it was going to be a huge amount of work since we had let the weeds and grass go nuts there. It was starting to choke the roses and I was worried about the lilac tree we planted last year for Josie. We didn’t think about taking a before picture, which is really too bad because the transformation is dramatic, but you can ask anyone who saw it before…it was a mess! So, we started with shoveling off the top layer of soil, weeds, and grass. This took all of our available time on Saturday and a couple of hours on Sunday. Then we transplanted a rhododendron from my parents house. Next we put down some fresh soil to try to even things out. After we put down weed cloth we finished by putting fresh bark down. It looks amazing! What do you think?
And here is a picture of the top of Josie’s lilac all budded up:
I think it looks pretty nice! 