I love the green sanctuary feeling, but clearly, it's overgrown. "Watson's Dad" gave a few pertinent comments about cutting back the hedge, which was empowering to me.
I tried to hack back the lilac bush myself, and proved almost completely incompetent.
So, yesterday, I hired "Mr Ho"---his biz. name-- to do the labor. Here's what greeted me when I got home:
Clearly, I need to plant some color, water the lawn so it greens up again, probably do something with seed and fertilizer (looking for more ideas, Watson's Dad!) etc.
But I think it's a LOT better!
One problem; I asked "Mr Ho" to remove 4 of the arborvitae trees that have died. They're still there. But, I haven't paid him yet, so we'll obviously clear that up before I write that check.
