We’re starting to think about what type of landscaping we want around here. And I stumbled on this image from our backyard, last year. We planted these hydrangeas a few years ago, not sure if they’d make it in our backyard which got so much sun, but they ended up absolutely flourishing. Year after year, they grew bigger and healthier. And in the summertime, our backyard was beautiful, with giant white blooms set against our charcoal colored retaining wall.
Over the four years that we lived in that house, we made a lot of changes to the landscaping. Mostly because the plantings that were installed by the builder didn’t do well. We learned later that it was partly based on choosing the wrong plants for the wrong areas, and partly that they did a terrible job with creating draining in the landscaped areas. For example, we had one flower bed where absolutely nothing would grow. We couldn’t figure out why until we decided to dig the entire thing up, and found a 4ft x 4ft piece of plywood, buried beneath the bed. Nice.
We didn’t have our builder landscape anything here at the new house. Partly because we wanted to offset some expenses with the landscape budget, and mostly because we want to take our time and choose landscaping that we’ll love.
It’s a little sad to start over, and not already have mature thriving plants flanking the house, but at the same time it’s exciting because we have a completely blank canvas.
Will there be hydrangeas?
I don’t know yet. But probably.
Definitely probably.
