It’s been three months since I embarked on my journey to a beautiful front yard. The weather was unusually rainy, and the drought monitor shows that our area improved from severe drought to abnormally dry.
My husband mowed the lawn for the first time in three months. It was a lesson in patience, because the lawn had looked scruffy. But when I went to inspect it, it was quite lush in some spots. The smell and feel of the grass reminded me of my childhood, when I would I place my pink blanket down, lay face up, and look at the clouds.
Anyway, in advance of the picture, I was determinedly clipping grass with scissors when my neighbor, Debbie came over and said, “Hey, that’s monkey grass you’re clipping. You’re cheating!”
“Debbie, if I wanted to cheat, I would have sprayed the bare spots with green paint.” We both laughed.
Actually, that’s a thing—spraying dirt green, it’s called hydro spraying. You know, when you see the trucks spraying a green, foamy liquid on areas around highways to plant grass seed. There’s a home version, called Hydro Mousse, but every review you read says it doesn’t work. I’ll pass.
So, here are the before and after pictures:
June 19th front lawn
September 19th front lawn
I think my “baby’s first haircut” looks fabulous.
I bought some variegated Hosta to plant around one of the trees. First, I dug out some monkey grass and transferred St. Augustine to bare spots. I have clover, called oxalis with pink flowers that some call a weed, but I like it. Really, a weed is just a plant that is growing where it is not wanted. I want them, just not in the lawn. So, I dug these up and placed them in pots around the tree.
Amazingly, an hour after I planted the Hosta I could already see growth.
My future posts about the front yard won’t have the word ‘struggles” in the title. I think I have contended and come off the victor.
