I ended up with this!.
We were left with quite a few plants, but also a lot of empty spaces and a lot of weeds.Chris poked in this random hummingbird garden ornament that he found in the garage and that just added to the sad-looking mess.
We decided to tackle the garden a couple of weeks ago.We don’t have a lot (or any) time for upkeep throughout the Summer this year so our plan was to:.a) Fill up as much space with plants as possible to help smother the weeds.. and.
b) Work towards creating a garden that’s full enough with plants that the weeds that do come through aren’t very noticeable at all.. A garden like that takes a lot of years to build up, but we were able to lay the ground work for what this garden will be in the future in just one afternoon..Eventually, we’re aiming for something that looks like this:.
This photo came from American Meadows.
The garden is full, full, full and little bit wild-looking.1) Lower your expectations for how much you’re going to get done in a given amount of time.
And then lower them again..They say that when you’re remodeling, things will always take twice as long as you think and cost twice as much.
As a DIYer, I’d say this is completely false.While things aren’t always as expensive as I think they will be, because we do the labor ourselves, projects can easily take us, like, 10 times as long as I think they should.