If it’s going to be an extreme makeover, it’s going to take a looooong time.
But this week, we started what we hope will become an extreme makeover of our landscape. With our decision to have me stay home another year, our financial outlook is quite different from what we had expected it would be and so the long-term projects have become even longer-term. And the different phases of the projects have been broken down into sub-phases to make them more financially manageable.
A year ago, we began our landscape dream with a single tree. A single 1″ caliper, 10-gallon tree. And for the next year, that’s where the dream sat. Under the measly shade of that one pitiful little tree.
Now, a year later, we not only have a shiny new landscape plan (shiny because it’s laminated), but we have a patio plan, and a shade structure plan! This week our plans finally broke ground as we had the first phase of our patio poured. Despite a spring thunderstorm “event” on Thursday evening, our patio seems to have survived intact. Hopefully we’ll be able to get approval from the developer for the shade structure and have that built so we can enjoy our patio some this summer.
The Heard Museum nature conservatory near our house has been hosting their annual native plants sale all week, so I went yesterday to check out their bogo deals. While most of their small pots were picked-over, I did manage to find some trees that were on our plan, so I picked up 6 for $90. Four are Eastern Red Cedars and two are Possumhaws, which we will plant in our front yard and thus initiate the grand landscape plan for the front yard.
Pictures will be forthcoming, but for now, I gotta go do me some planting!