New Gardening Pics

Attached are some new landscaping pics of the new flower bed I put together last weekend. I gotta tell you that digging holes for those shrubs was a pain in the butt! The soil here is so "CLAY"-like. It's awful! It's like trying to dig through concrete at times!!!! I also added a couple solar lights (one in each bed) to put out a soft glow at night. I hope you guys enjoy the pics! The backyard is really starting to come into form.

Jen's dad also brought us over the grill he got for Jen for her b-day (early b-day gift) tonight. We weren't able to take pictures of it as it was dark outside. More pics will follow with the complete patio. It looks GREAT!!! We can't wait to make some hot dogs (burnt ones for Jen, of course).

Gardening

Well, I took the day off to work on the backyard and relax. After waking up feeling like crap, and spending a few hours relaxing, I decided to still do what I had planned as it was the reason behind taking the day off.

I ended up filling in some low points in the backyard with some top soil to try to level it off. The big project was a new flower bed I put in right next to the back porch. The two shrubs in the corner by the gutters were already there when it was a small bed. I added the 4 indian hawthornes and big stone, adding additional border stones as well. You'll also notice that I gutted up the dead grass in that area as well. My plan of action is to start another bed along the fence that stretches along the entire side fence, making for a curved entrance to the backyard. I think that will really make it look nice and will make sitting on the back patio really nice!!!! For that project, I'm certainly gonna solicit the help of a certain PG!!!! :)