Yard Work

After consulting with my dad through pictures last night I decided to tackle the front yard landscape.  The first issue was the dandelion plants.  I've never seen them grow that huge.  They were taller than Nathan and have thick roots that I had to dig up all around the house.  I thought that was the most pressing task at hand, because I don't want dandelions spreading all over my lawn. Then I had the task of uprooting this minty-vined herb plant (that's about as technical as I get with plants).  It has taken over all of the plants and bushes. 

I feel like having a house is making me learn new things everyday.  I don't have much of a green thumb.  In fact, the plant Adam bought me was killed because I let it stay out in the frost. (I was in denial for a while, but eventually Joel made me throw it away- it wasn't going to come back to life as much as I wanted it to).  I watched my dad garden my whole life, but the only time I helped was when it was obligatory for Family Home Evening Monday nights.  I should have paid better attention, because I don't really know what I'm doing.  I guess I'm going to have to teach myself some green thumb-ness and hope it sticks this time.
Here's the before........

After weeding and trimming.......that's as far as I could get before it started raining......

With new topsoil and some new flowers planted (taken at dusk when I finally finished)........

 The 2 in front are Hibiscus that will be Red and Orange when they blossom- you can kind of see an orange flower starting to bloom.