
Here’s a Quick Cure for a Boring Backyard
Our bland and lifeless backyard was beginning to get on my last nerve. We didn’t have the funds to spend $1,000’s on an outdoor kitchen or terraces or even new furniture. I wanted color, but I had one major obstacle. The colors and plants that I adore are also loved and adored by the deer that run along a path behind our house. They are all quite the delicacy for our four-legged friends. It seemed I needed a miracle cure for our boring backyard.
A Quick Cure for a Boring Backyard
Here are a few before pictures when it was boring and lifeless.
Lots of weed type plants in the very back of the yard where the “deer and antelope play.”
Even the recently planted flowers in my planter were not looking healthy.
The Indian Hawthorne in our beds was about 8 years old. Our landscaper said most of this plant around our town is dying about the same age.
Even the larger plants were beginning to die.
The beds along the deer path are filled with camellias, magnolia trees and lots of weeds.
The tea olives on each corner of the house had began to grow above the roofline and were difficult to keep trimmed.
Pulling Out the Boring
So I did a bit of research and found a list of plants that are suppose to be deer resistant.
We ordered Viburnum, Spirea, Italian Cypress Trees, Knock-out Roses, and Azaleas.
Our crew from Cypress Land Services in Fairhope, AL pulled all the bland and boring plants out in no time.
Installing the Pretty
New Azaleas and an Italian Cypress on this corner.
Back row of plants are viburnum, front are spirea and Italian Cypress on the corners.
Green and alive are so much prettier than brown and dying.
We added bottlebrush trees as a privacy “fence.” I love to sip my coffee on my porch in my pj’s.
New azaleas for the birds.
We are praying for our knockout roses. We learned after the installation that even though these survive in other gardens along a deer path, they are NOT deer resistant.
New container garden.
We would love to begin entertaining more and with a less boring backyard, it will be a joy to invite friends here. It is also a low-maintenance plan that offers a prettier view from our porch than before. Now if it takes us 30 minutes to say goodbye after a friendly gathering, it just won’t matter!
If you live in my area, you can update your backyard with a call to Teddy.
William “Teddy” Coward
Cypress Land Services
251-379-8964
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Mary-the boondocks blog
July 22, 2016 at 1:43 pmKim your backyard looks so much better already. And just wait till they grow. It will be spectacular. I love all of the greenery you have.
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July 22, 2016 at 10:03 amJess
July 19, 2016 at 3:57 pmSo cute. 🙂 Love the ideas!
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Katrin
July 17, 2016 at 3:02 amAh your backyard is gorgeous! You really made it look so easy to make it look beautiful! I wish I had all that space and greenery in mine! Lovely!
Kim Burdette
July 25, 2016 at 12:56 pmThanks, Katrin! Cypress Landscape Services made it easy for me!
Jenna
July 12, 2016 at 6:02 pmLooks great Kim, new landscaping is almost as good as redecorating! It’s like having a new house!
Lori
July 12, 2016 at 2:02 pmGardening can be so fulfilling! Hoping everything grows, grows, grows!! 🙂 Thanks for sharing and linking up at Dishing It & Digging It! 🙂
Kim Burdette
July 12, 2016 at 2:03 pmFrom your mouth to God’s ear! Thanks for the party, Lori!
Nikki Gwin
July 11, 2016 at 2:55 pmHello from Hueytown! Looks like you found a good landscaper this time. These choices should be much better. Those tea olives, although I love them and I have one of my own, get WAY too big to be that close to your house!
🙂 gwingal
Kim Burdette
July 12, 2016 at 11:05 amHello Hueytown! It’s nice to meet you! So glad you stopped by and yes, I agree about the tea olives! They were here when we bought the house.
Christine
July 11, 2016 at 11:26 amLoving the transformation you did! I admit Deer are not routine visitors in my yard due, so I am so sorry! I would be so upset if someone came by and decided my bushes were dinner. LOL
Love your new shrubs, they are going to look amazing when they fill out.
Kim Burdette
July 11, 2016 at 11:29 amThank you, Christine! It has been quite the challenge to plant things that I love that they don’t!
Laurie at Pride in Photos
July 7, 2016 at 1:21 pmYes, life is just TOO short, for boring anything! Your lawn looks marvelous!
Kim Burdette
July 11, 2016 at 11:27 amThanks so much, Laurie! You are a dear! The kind I welcome into my backyard!!!