NO LONGER PINK.

Before:

After:



The color is "Buttered Yam." You want bold? We got your bold right here.

Programming note: in the bottom right corner of this last picture you can see where we've dug out what will be a French drain. All that rain from the roof has to go somewhere.

Miscellany

Roses in the front.

Crepe myrtle doing well.



We got a bottlebrush to fill a hole in the back corner, and it's thriving. That border you see around the bottlebrush is made of concrete blocks left over from the front walkway. You can also see the border in front of the cypresses; that's made of flagstone salvaged from the old patio.

We got this arbor on sale; it will eventually go at the entrance to the backyard and we'll plant it with bougainvilla.

Parkway

This is one of the last big projects we tackled in the front. We dug out a huge amount of old ice plant. And we added a railroad-tie border to make things look nicer.

Front Bed Update

Growing in nicely. It will still be two or three years at least before they completely grow in and become the big hedge we planned, but they're getting there.

The cacti are doing well, too. We actually had to remove a prickly pear because it was growing too big and taking over everything. (Probably a bad choice to plant a prickly pear in the first place, seeing as they can get bigger than SUVs.)