Landscaping

We spent April vacation week in our OB Gingerbread, working all day, every day. The only time we left the property was to walk the dogs and go to the grocery (a nightly event). Most of our work was scraping, sanding and painting the front of the house. I took a break one day from the scraping to do some landscaping.

After painting the porch skirt (changing the blue to tan), I took the pile of broken bricks left from taking down the chimney part way and used them to create a border for the landscaping in front of the house. I doubled the size of the foundation beds to allow shrubs and a row of hostas. I also circled the oak tree and connected it with the foundation bed on that side of the house.

For Christmas, the Falmouth IT Department gave me a generous gift for new plants from Mahoney's. I took a drive out to their OB location and purchased two lovely dwarf holley bushes. I planted them on either side of the front step and moved the hydrandea over. There were tons of hostas that I moved around. I also brought some plants from our Marion home: day lillies, iris, catmint, astilbe and dahlia bulbs. I planted everything in a location that would suit the plant type (sun vs shade).

We will wait to put some mulch down after we have finished all the scraping. It should help to cover up all the little paint chips. Already it looks cleaner and more defined.