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The Front Yard Project: Part 1

As I mentioned in my last post. We have started to work on a landscaping project in our front yard. We built a cedar fence to define the space last year, but we just recently began the rock work that will form the raised beds. We are filling the raised beds with Geo Growers Thunder Garden soil mix. I will be planting a hedge of Knock Out Roses in a combination of pink and red along the cedar fence lining the north side of the yard. We will leave the existing mountain laurels, and will be adding some sort of 15-20′ native ornamental tree to the north bed for height. Other plant choices for that bed will be yuccas, palms, grasses, and native perennials.

We are thinking about replacing the wooden fence between the front yard and the raised bed gardens south of the front yard with a black wrought iron fence so that we can see from one area to the next. A small gate and arbor to adjoin to two areas is also in the plans.

I want to turn the area below into a rock grotto with a stone water feature and a Japanese Maple as the focal points here.

The primrose hedge is being moved to the entrance to the property (since the deer don’t like to eat them) to make way for a large perennial flower bed that will run the entire length of the front of the house. I will provide more details on the plans for this bed in the coming days.

Look for more posts in this series as our plan unfolds and our work continues.

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