The Nest

Gardening Savior

Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 11:39 AM

How embarrassing.  Since we've put all our efforts into the interior of our house (six months on the basement finishing), we've sorta let the outside just go.  It's pretty bad.  Our pond rose out of the ground due to a drastic temperature change a few months ago, and since we didn't want to redig the monstrous hole it requires, we decided it was a sign and we're moving past the pond.  We completely removed the tub part, but it's just sitting next to our house!  The area around the pond used to be gorgeous flowers and plants, but we haven't even touched it yet this year.  The weeds were so bad that you could barely see the mulch below. 

Now here's when you know something is really an eyesore.  My dear, sweet, retired neighbor hated looking at our disastrously unmaintained garden so much that she spent an entire afternoon weeding it, raking it, and trimming back the stuff that survived from last summer.  It looks so good now, but I felt just terrible that we let it look so ragged that it drove her to do it herself.  I baked her cupcakes to thank her.  Now if she'd only get annoyed enough at the front yard to pamper that area!  There is a weed almost as tall as my 9 year old niece!