A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Las Vegas to visit my daughter. She had bought a beautiful home in Las Vegas that had a very nice yard already. But she wanted to change things up a bit. Enter me.
I arrived late on Wednesday night so I toured the inside of the house and then we crashed.
Early Thursday morning I awoke to sunshine and fresh coffee. Looking out the patio doors that face west, I was treated to a view of the mountains, glowing in the morning light. Some still had snow capped peaks. Beautiful. Just think, Erin sees these everyday!!
After a leisurely breakfast, we spent the morning planning what we wanted to keep in the yard, what had to be trimmed and what had to go! With this in mind, our first plan of action was to go to the store and buy the tools we would need: a shovel, pruning shears, a trowel, rake and hose.
We also picked up an interesting plant called Kangaroo Paw in yellow. We bought 3.
The first new plants for her yard. Also bought a yucca plant that was on clearance for $4.00. We would find a place for it.
This is the north yard before.
The 2 yellow and green bushes in front were moved to the north wall on either side of the trellis where we planted the Lemon Brush. The rest of the plants along the wall were removed. We found out the hard way that the big bushes with red berries on has nasty thorns!Next we needed to find where the sprinkler system ran and how it worked. By finding the start of it we dug until we found a connection. Then dug up the ones that would be in the way of the patio ( a new 12' x 24' patio will be add to the back of the house), moved the plants they fed and figured out where we needed the water sources.
The rest of the day was spent uncovering water lines and digging up dead and unwanted plants.
After a great day in the sunshine, we relaxed under the shade trees.
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