Saturday, November 8, 2008

The beginning of the landscaping

As you know, I have been complaining about our landscaping not getting done. We finally got tired of waiting for the company to call us back so we contacted a different company. They were abot the come that week and at least start the job. It was too late for any new plantings so they will come back in the spring to put those in. Here are some before and after pictures for you:





























Hopefully you can get an idea of the changes. The trees up front will be much easier to get around with the mower than they have been in the last 20 years that we have lived here. Not that we are mowing any more this year but looking towards the future. A funny postscript to this whole story: About 2 weeks after we had this done, there was a knock on the back door one evening (yes, it was already dark). Here is the guy from the first company we contacted back in May with his landscape plan. Unbelievable, only took him 5 months to get back to us! He seemed a bit surprised that we has already gotten it done. I informed him that they never returned my calls concerning this so we had to go with another company. Not sure what he expected after waiting so long to get back to us. He gave us the plan anyway in case we were interested in any of the plantings he had. It was interesting but we will stick with the company that actually came and did the work. I will make sure to post pictures when all the plants are in next spring. Hopefully, that will not be the next time I have to blog! :-)