Thank you Jo Ann. The only thing left on that side was a Rhododendron that looks a little sad and I'm hoping that clearing everything out will help rejuvenate it.

What a lot of work! Amazing transformation, Lori. Hope you'll be posting pics as the new beds fill out.

Our front landscaping is finally done. They even weeded and mulched my livingroom garden.
It makes the rest of the gardens look like Dogpatch to see the neat edging job.
Taken from my livingroom window

Those irises are lovely!

Love the cats checking it all out. So cute!!

Amanda, they are looking at birds.

Jo Ann i thought maybe they were watching the lilies grow! Waiting like everyone else for the first lily bloom

Dave, they are one year old,we have new windows and screens. It's a job to keep them from chasing bees and small flying things that land on the screens.
Great fun tho, sister and brother rescue from Humane Society.

Lori,
A beautiful renovation and so comfortable now! Love the bench!
It was a lot of hard work tho. I know that!

Jo Ann,
Love how everyone enjoys the view. It looks great from inside and isn't that how it goes. One bed down, many to go?
Beautiful iris!

Iris seem to be short lived. Poppies are just starting. Lilies next ( what the deer havn't eaten. )

Despite being on the egde of town, surrounded by farmland and tree lines, I don't see many deer. Occasionally I see three or four crossing the field North of me, but none in my yard.

Sally, I wonder if it's because they have plenty of browse other places.?

Jo Ann,
I hope so! I have a lot of things they would eat. Even the rabbits don't eat a lot of my plants.

Here is a shot of my local bud muncher Yesterday, I put down a border of Liquid Fence so far no problems. Last year just about bloom time they came and ate most of my newer cultivars during the night!

We have been working on a sitting area project. I will need to take some pictures tomorrow, but for now here is a shot of my garden buddy chillin in the grass.


Cordale

Teresa,
She's pretty healthy. I hope the liquid border helps keep her out.
Oh he is just sooo cute!

My first fairy planting


A new hosta bed, still needs a border and mulch.

Teresa,
Love the birdbath area fairy planting!
I like the canna in there!

It seems deer and rabbits are more troublesome where the human population is more dense and there are fewer grazing options. I live on a farm surrounded by hay pasture where I see deer and rabbits fairly often, but they rarely bother the gardens.

The last small town I lived in was nestled between the foothills of the Appalachians in the Daniel Boone National forest. The interstate and the downtown area kind of isolated a population of deer. I would often see deer standing in lawns right down town eating landscape plants. They were desperate and would eat almost anything- one friend even had conifers nibbled. Those deer looked thin and unhealthy too, it was pitiful. I lived out away from town where the forest was more lush and green, and the deer there looked healthy and didn't bother my garden.

Neal,
I always say everything has to eat. Thankfully my plants aren't eaten to the ground or I might not be so gracious, lol! But I feel so sorry for those deer. I would want to find a way to feed them.