Yesterday I finished up cleaning in the front yard. I cleaned up the main yard: trimmed the plants, pruned the bushes, picked up dead leaves, cut back ivy, and mulched a lot. I also got around to cleaning out the herb bed in the back yard.

I also took some new pictures of the cleaned out beds and my blooming plants. Check them out!

Don't worry that it now looks so barren in the front yard. That will quickly change. Every year there is a war between the gout weed, ivy, and the variegated strawberry vine that lives out there. I simply mulched over most of them, but after a good rain the mulch will fall below the ivy and hopefully block out some of the gout weed. But I have long given up on getting rid of that. I just hope that the mulch helps keep some of it at bay until the tree comes back and shades over the whole yard.