We have lived in our house for more than five years, but thanks to desert landscaping, pulling a few weeds here and there (usually after we get a love letter from our HOA letting us know the weeds are as tall as our plants), we haven't really done any yard work. Now that Boston wants to be outside all the time, we decided some serious yard work was necessary.
This sudden desire to fix our yard may have also been pushed by my realization that almond trees grow really well in Las Vegas (I love almonds).
We started by replacing a few dying/old/ugly plants, ripping out anything that came up easily, and going to great lengths to tame the oleander bush that was trying to take over our back yard. Then after a few weeks on a waiting list (apparently everyone else in Las Vegas wants an almond tree), we got to work replacing some of the plants we ripped up. Boston loved looking for plants, and pulling the wagons through Star Nursery.
To add some silliness, we had to get all of our new plants from Star to our house... in our little passenger car. It was ridiculous, and I laughed almost the whole way home.
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| Our little helper taking a break. |
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| I'm so excited for this little guy to grow up and give me almonds! |
With all the junk plants and overgrowth gone, we realized most of our landscaping rocks had disappeared and what was left looked awful. A few weeks later, we had five tons of rocks dumped in front of our house, and went to work fixing the rocks. Thanks to some awesome friends, we got the rocks moved and raked into place in just a few hours. Now we are excited to take a few years off from yard work ;-).
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