3 Month Before & Afters

Back Garden (west fence) - April 2, 2012

Same Garden - May 6, 2012
* If you click to zoom in on the second photo, you will notice that's my son's BB gun target on the fence.  :) 


July 6, 2012 - Grass is looking a little sad due to the extreme temps (and the dog spots) but the plants have filled in nicely.

 
Another view of the same flower bed. . .

 
April 2012 - I hate seeing my neighbor's ugly yard over the 6' fence.  Sadly, we have a city ordinance that doesn't allow us to build the fence any higher.  I'm thinking about installing bamboo roller shades on the outside of our patio cover and letting them hang down just to the top of the fence line.  I've also contemplated attaching a few trellises with vines to the fence that reach maybe a foot above the top of the fence.  It's probably still against the ordinance but I'd be willing to bet that the neighbors wouldn't say anything about it since I'm sure all the junk in their yard is a fire hazard.

July 2012


View of the back garden around the pool.  I have to hand water this area (hence the hose across the pool in the second photo) because they broke/buried the automatic sprinklers in this area when we had the pool put in in 2004.

April 2012

July 2012

July 2012