Bye Bye Bushes

The landscaping project that I had planned for next spring has started. . .

I came home after a long day of running Saturday errands and I get a call from my mom - my dad and G.C. are coming over to pull out the bushes that block the house from the street.

So much for my lazy afternoon!

Normally when pulling out a plant there is some plan to replant it somewhere where it may be more suitable, that was not the case with these bushes for two reasons.

1) they had been planted the same time a fence had been put in (most likely sometime in the 80's) and they were so bad entangled in the fences that where was no way to salvage them.

and

2) they were ficus bushes, and I don't need nor want anymore ficus.

Here are some shots of the men at work.

Getting rid of the bushes really opened up the front of the house, makes it more welcoming, and almost doubles the size of my front yard!

(please ignore all the sand all over the driveway)

The only downside to pulling out the bushes is that now I can't put off landscaping the front yard. . .