Landscaping Our TN Home

Hi everyone. We are finally almost finished landscaping the front of the house. We still need to mulch the inner backside of the mounds but ran out of mulch. We bought 15 yards of mulch. For you that know about that stuff know that's a whole lot of mulch!!! And it seems like a whole lot more when the temperatures are so hot! We are in our 3rd week of temps in the 100's. Most days 104 to 107. This is the hottest summer in 30 years! Needless to say I only worked mornings and evenings those days!

Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

We rented this bob cat to move the dirt around.

We had 3 large dump truck loads of dirt delivered to the back yard.

The landscaping next to the house. We wheelbarrowed the dirt from the back because we didn't want to run the bobcat on the sidewalk. That was backbreaking! The area is a lot larger then it looks in the picture!
For those of you that have been at our house, notice all the new houses in our development!

This is an aerial view from the house next door's upstairs window!! I couldn't afford a plane!!
Notice also that our grass is burning up! Frank has since watered some and it does look a little better!

HELP JACK,.....WE NEED A SPRINKLER SYSTEM!!!

This is to show how wide the landscape is around the walkway. The took several days to complete.

This top picture is the view I see from the dining room window. I wanted to keep that low so I did a little rock thing! It'll look nice when it is fully grown with all the ground cover.

The butterflies love all the flowers. There are hundreds of them every day.

Frank decided he wanted to plant some tomato plants! This is the city guy way of doing it!!! They do taste really good though. But of course, not like a "Jersey Tomato!"