Landscaping

Over a year ago, we had a landscape architect design a new front yard for the house. Unfortunately, it was for the "old" house. We decided to do the remodel after we had the landscape plans done. It was a little backward, but what the heck. Baron Brothers Nursery charged less than $600 for the design service and $350 of that came back to us as a credit when we bought plants from them. All the work Dick has been doing on the front yard - the flagstone path, sprinkler system, etc. - has been in accordance with "the plan".

Today we were finally ready to take advantage of the credit. Since we are doing the work ourselves - and the 'extras' we put into the house wiped out the landscaping budget - we're landscaping one section of the yard at a time. We made a list of the plants we needed and took it to Baron Brothers. After about an hour - and one "bee alert" when a small swarm decided that the nursery looked like a good landing spot - we tallied up our total. They didn't have everything that was on our list, but if it was on the list and they had it in stock, we bought it. Remember that $350 credit? Our bill came to $350.70. I am not kidding. They wrote off the .70 and called it even.

Today's project was the lower left section between the driveway and the flagstone path. This is what it looked like this morning:
And this is what it looks like tonight:
Nice, huh? We went with an English country garden theme, with flowers in purples, oranges and yellows. We planted:

Variegated Agapanthus -
Lambs Ears (appropriate for a spinner)
Sweet Lavender -
Russian Sage -
Chinese Razzleberri Tree (it's hard to tell in the photo, but the leaves are a lovely red. And it will flower in the fall.)
Ground Morning Glory -
Variegated Society Garlic -
Daylily -
Coreopsis -
Shasta Daisy -
I don't remember the name of this one - it's a geranium of some sort.
Bronze Flax -
White Fornight Lily -
We still need to purchase 3 Limelights and 1 Chinese Rassleberri bush to finish this section.

If I have the wrong names on the plants, please don't tell me. Reading landscape blueprints is hard - at least for me. The planting took a lot longer than it should have since I kept getting confused as to which plant went with which number on the drawing. It didn't help that most of the plants did not have tags. I'm just saying. It wasn't all my fault. Ok. It really was. Dick has an amazing amount of patience.