We've been playing around with the front landscaping for a while now, but finally made some progress. You can see the "before" pictures from a few weeks ago in this older post.
After a bit of scratching our heads, we read a few things online and then headed to Home Depot to get a few things. We're not finished yet, but we have the new retaining wall up.
It's actually 3 stones high (18") but doesn't appear so due to the depth of the first stone behind the grass. We're debating adding one more row to it for height, or waiting and putting in another row behind it (in the Spring, we're done for fall - or close to it) for a terraced effect - which might be kind of cool. Then we can put our perrenials in the upper terrace and our annuals in the lower one - for a two-tiered effect. Just have to make sure the irrigation works out.
We're having people over in a bit, so we're done for this weekend - but next weekend we have to back fill it with topsoil (which also helps us not have to worry as much about the horrible clay soil here in Colorado) and then move around the mums and yellow shrubs we have there now - no need for them to go to waste! After that, we'll probably just plant some annuals so it looks nice until everything dies in the next month or two.
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