Tipping Point

Last night we appear to have hit a milestone with the landscaping. Hitherto, any work that we put into the lawn and house exterior (time, $) has helped the appearance only slightly. As in, that new bed with the row of arborvitae looks infinitely better than the old row of cedars we cut down, but the rest of the yard still looks like crap. Or, that new Marvin window is much better suited than the rotting bay window, but that bed of river rock on exposed clear plastic under the window is still butt-ugly. But last night all that changed.

End of season nursery sales were the inspiration for the day. The week previous I finally finished pulling the plastic out from under the rocks, and re-edging the border (that bed of rocks has been put down so long ago that the lawn was encroaching about a foot into the rock bed, and so much soil had built up everywhere else that the plastic was laughingly useless as a weed barrier anyway.)



Two nurseries, $250 dollars later, and enough late afternoon sun intake to cause us now be suffering from the effects of heat exhaustion, the front bed looks beautiful. And the best part is that it no longer is followed with a “but,” as in “the front bed looks beautiful but the entry sucks.” And the entry does suck. But somehow the overall beauty of the landscaping disguises the butt-ugliness of the entry.

Nice.