Front Yard DIY Garden Landscape Project

I found the most beautiful hanging baskets when shopping for groceries back in April. I could not pass them up. There were exactly five and thus started a project that I had been wanting to work on forever. 

We have a detached garage. The garage technically is in our backyard but the fence line starts at the garage on that side of our thus making for a long driveway. In turn it makes for an expansive fence line between our neighbors and us. I would love to have a bed put in going down the length of the fence but unfortunately that is not possible due to the utility lines that lie on our side of the fence. 

Backyard Garden Makeover

Our backyard was a blank slate after we moved in. The first summer we lived here we planted several Crepe Myrtle Trees and an Oak tree to line the back of our yard. The following autumn we added the archway and picket fence.

It was always our intention to connect the individual flower beds to make them larger. With all the time on my hands and the beautiful weather we had in the spring I got busy transforming this small area.  

Gardenias-Front Flower Beds

I have been wanting to update the front flower beds for awhile now. I started by yanking out some type of small shrub a few weeks ago that the builder put in. I have no idea what it was because it never grew any larger than two branches with a few leaves. There were probably 15 of them.