Daily Home Renovation Tips

Now that the two small gardens on either side of the front door have been made over, we can turn our attention to the main front garden.

First, the garden planner suggested we put more hostas plants in the main front garden as well. Sounded good to us. More of the low / no maintenance type of garden plant. This was the first thing we did.

I had some specific desires here. For one of these, there was a mini-3 foot high wall that extended out beyond the garage wall which had a coach light on top. I wanted to have this demolished during last year’s renovation but was convinced otherwise. So, I wanted to hide it with some shrubs / bushes.

Our garden planner kept with the Pyramidal Yews theme, three  on the right side of the main garden to help hide that mini-3 foot high wall and three more on the left site to balance things out; for good measure there was one more of these shrubs right in the center of the garden against the garage wall.

Along the side of the garden running against the driveway, the plan called for 12 Day Lily’s. This was the first splash of colour. The deep brunt orange of the center of the perennial flowering plant blended nicely with our off-red brick and the bright yellow of the rest of the flower was a nice touch.

Here is what the front garden looked like once all of these were transplanted (in the case of the hostas) and planted.

Next time, a problem arises the very next morning.

To continue with the next article in our series on our garden makeover, simply select this link to Part 10.