Our friend Mr. Chris recommended a landscaper guy to use. Well, we had him come out to give us an estimate and was very pleased by how fair it was and hired him to re-do our front yard. Our front yard was a bit of grass, and a bit of an obnoxious ground cover, and some Holly trees, and just a poorly thought out "low maintenance" design (and it was ugly).
So Landscaper dude told me he was going to start this past Saturday, but it rained all day so I really wasn't too surprised he didn't show up. I was very surprised that he showed up around 2:30pm on Sunday! They started clearing old ugly plants, and weeds and that ugly ground cover. By the end of the day yesterday I had a front yard of dirt.... No weeds, just dirt ....No ugly ground cover ... JUST DIRT!
I will post images up later of the progress being made. I am REAL curious what it is going to look like today.
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As promised, the images are HERE