Project 2: The front walkway

So, there are not many pictures of the front of the house (that I took) that don't include piles of storm debris. But the front bed by the walk has literally one decent plant - a weeping yupon (I believe). Other plants included a brutally mutilated crape myrtle and nine or ten huge bushes that prevented any sunlight from reaching the ground around them. A little bit of ivy seems to have survived and grown over the years, although I'm neutral about ivy.

Here's the house as it was when we bought it four months ago:



Here's the house after the removal of the offending bushes:




And another shot from further away:



The yupon will stay and new plants can be added in the coming spring. Now I'm just trying to kill what remains in the bed, remove the last of the bricks outlining the bed, and mulch areas, like around the pine tree, that need it. The whole front of the house is visible from the street, though, and I should have taken a picture of the bushes before removing them. McVicker had neglected to do any lawn work after June 2008, and when we bought the house this fall we were so busy with hurricane repair, moving in, and general fall craziness (Christmas, school, etc.) that we neglected yard work; the bushes were in need of some trimming, and cutting them off entirely wasn't much more work.