DIY - Day 1

This weekend was used up by our first real landscaping project for the house. I have never built a flowerbed before, but we understood the mechanics of it, so I bought some bushes from work I have been wanting to plant outside our breakfast area windows for a while, we got our soil, mulch and another shovel, and set to work. Only two trips to Home Depot for this one!

The project was only supposed to consume an afternoon. However, as we started clearing sod (sans sod cutter), I began to realize that this was going to be a job for at least one power tool after all. We did not end up renting the sod cutter because I figured it was such a small area, a sod cutter would have been what my brain labled as "overkill". Once we began clearing the grass, I realized overkill would have been better than what we had carved out for ourselves. That sod did not want to leave!

Here is Brian taking a break next to the beginnings of the new flowerbed:

Here I am, raking out the last of the grass runners:

My beautiful Ixora bushes:


I cannot get over how gorgeous these flowers are!

The rest would have to wait until the morning...