My Big Backyard

Now that the weather has warmed up and the backyard has started greening up we're finding plants and flowers everywhere! Honeysuckle and ivy are trying to take over but it's really a lovely, big, shady yard that has loads of potential.

The Great Outdoors

Spent last weekend freeing the back porch from a whole lot of overgrown mess in an effort to put up more fencing and secure the grounds a bit more. Also it was way too nice to be inside painting! As always, some before and afters for your viewing pleasure.

This is from back in March, before the plants really started growing.

The porch viewed from the back yard.

The bushes were growing in through the screened porch.

And now the "afters":

From the front of the house to the back yard.

In total we removed 3-4 huge bushes that lined the side of the screen porch, 2-3 small trees that had grown up in the middle of everything and untold amounts of ivy.

We also discovered the absolute cutest tree hidden back in the bushes that we've fallen in love with. It's a snowball hydrangea.