Here is a photo of the front of our house when we moved in just over a month ago.  When we looked at the house we knew that many of the shrubs out front would have to go.  There really were entirely too many of them and they were all big. We made a lot of of remodeling to the house, but the best was the new landscape, learn more here.

Fortunately we have a landscaper who lives a few houses down and he’s really good.  He’s the one who actually put in the all those shrubs for the original owner.  Not surprisingly he told her that her plan had too many shrubs and that they would grow too fast.  She didn’t care, so that is why the front of the house looked like the developer got a great deal on shrubs.

We have since moved four of the shrubs to the back of the house.  They replaced what was a weed garden.  Evidently the people who rented the house for the past two years thought it was a wild flower garden because a lot of the weeds had purple flowers on them that I have grown since I decided to take a course with Susan.  Nice, especially when you consider the guy who lived there worked for our landscaper.

We replaced the four red shrubs with five plants of knockout roses.  The reason we decided on these is that they are low maintenance and will give us great color from March til November.  Perfect!  In front of the shrubs against the railing we are going to plant a lot of tulip bulbs so that we will have even more color in the spring.  I still need to talk to Randy about what else to put in there to give color once the tulips are done.  It’s still a work in progress.

And now that fall has arrived I couldn’t wait to get my typical fall decorations.  Here’s a current shot of the front door area.  We went with wheat swags this year instead of cornstalks.  They are a nice change, but I think next year we’ll be going back to cornstalks.