Working in the Yard

When spring and summer come around, it's time to work in the yard. We, meaning mostly Neil, have been working to make the yard beautiful and lower maintenance.

Warning: this post involves many pictures of green, growing things.

Last summer involved trimming hedges,



chopping down a wild rose bush that had grown a bit too much,



making a path to the shed,



and planting and mulching an apple tree and a cherry tree.



This spring, Neil replaced dead rose bushes in the front yard and mulched them.





He trimmed bushes and trees. This is the crab apple tree in the front yard.



While I went to BYU Women's Conference this year, each of our children chose a perennial to put in the lamp post box in the front yard and Neil planted strawberries in the top box. The kids are having a lot of fun seeing the flowers come out.



Last month, Neil planted a raspberry bush, a blackberry bush, and a blueberry bush and mulched it.



The latest project was to plant perennials and move the peony plants from the garden area and mulch the area around the dwarf spruce in the middle of the back yard.





The roses are starting to bloom and it's exciting to see growing things.