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The front our house has been a little bare, and Mary Anna has wanted more plantings. So we redid the front to spruce it up, and we added some beds.













We also put a layer of crushed limestone er vegetable garden (with the elevated beds), so she won’t have to fight through the weeds to get to her vegetable beds.
 
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Looks like a lot of work was done.
Looks great and will look better with time.


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Looking good! (Is one of those trees a spruce?)


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Looking good! (Is one of those trees a spruce?)


You have to ask Mary Anna. Plants are her domain. I buy exercise equipment. Smiler
 
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A wee bit foggy out there... oh, the plants look good! Big Grin
 
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That’s beautiful!


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The weeping blue cedar is going to get HUGE! Just so you know...

Huge! I love it.


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Nice! Are those pansies?
 
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I thought I saw somebody moving around in the front yard. I'm hiding behind that window, grading papers. Smiler

We were very happy with the landscaper and he seemed to be planning for things to grow. The drooping tree outside my window will supposedly grow in an atmospherically asymmetric way that is pointed away from the house. It's not a blue spruce, although I forget its name.

I think the blue trees out in the islands are Atlas blue spruces, and there's room for them to get big.

You can't see a lot of the smaller plantings at this range, but there are drift roses, Encore azaleas, abelias, hostas, two kinds of heuchera, Indian hawthorne, nandinas, loropetalums, buddleia, a redbud, and many other things that I'm forgetting that will give color all the year. And there are some evergreen things like boxwood and yaupon holly to give it all structure.

When things go dormant, he's going to move that Japanese maple out of the dooryard into one of the islands and replace it with one that has a different, more tree-like form.

Yes, those are pansies. They should spread out and he says that they'll go all winter here in Oklahoma. They did that in Florida, but I was surprised that they'd winter over here, because we have hard frosts. In the spring, I'll probably put in some impatiens in their place in the shade and I'm not sure what will be good for the sun yet. I'm sure the landscaper will have thoughts, but I have thoughts, too. Smiler

Because I'm not the best at upkeep, we'll probably have his team come quarterly to keep everything clipped and neat.

I'm really happy with how it's turning out.


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I just remembered--one of the evergreens is a deodor cedar. There's a weeping blue atlas cedar and a regular one, and there's the weird one in front that is some kind of cedar. So I don't think any of them are spruces.


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Oh, and there are a couple of kinds of ornamental grasses. I've never had any of those because I always think "Grass? Meh," but we're on the freakin' prairie. I figured we should listen to the man and plant some grasses.


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I love pansies! They were our winter flowers in Arizona, and they're just not as popular or available up here. I'm not sure why, they would do great. I used to stuff johnny-jump-ups in wherever I had a gap in our beds. Big Grin
 
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Looks great. ThumbsUp


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