Botbyl Style Aisle: Landscape Love

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Landscape Love - Part 1

This is the 1st part of "Landscape Love", which will be broken up into 3 posts, due to the detailed process of our new landscaping plan, & the exciting & delicate footage that I managed to collect over the last couple of days.

When Jon & I moved into our new home, we immediately planned to give special and well-deserved attention to our landscape, especially because the look of our new neighborhood and the wide variety of trees and "forest-like rustic elements" lends itself to a flexible and imaginative array of shrubs, plants, flowers, etc, whatever you prefer. This definitely excites me, although I'm way more likely to spend quality time inside the house, not in the garden, & wouldn't exactly consider myself a "green-thumb" type of girl. This neighborhood, however, inspires me to take more time to creatively design our yard, just as we enjoy designing each room in the new house. Here are a couple of photos of our house, as it looked when we moved in : Beautiful, but a little overgrown...yet certainly full of potential!!

Above you'll see the Man-eating tree monster covering our living room window, & below you'll see Jon furiously wrestling with one of many smaller monsters, that have gotten slightly out of control.

Apparently, Jon outsmarted his ferocious foe, & lived to tell the tale.

Of course, none of this DIY yard crashing craziness would be possible without Edward Scissorhands himself, who can turn anything into a mustache.

And Dan the Muscle man, who can rip out gigantic tree stumps with his bare hands, and bend a tree limb as if it were a pencil!!

All in all, it was extremely successful, although we hired a landscaping company to do some of the dirtier work, such as take out the moster tree, which may have been too large for any of us to handle, & possibly plant some smaller bushes & flowers that Jon & I picked out yesterday. We're on our way to a beautiful, inspiring, & (hopefully not-to-difficult-to-maintain) well manacured front yard (& backyard??)