Planting & Landscaping #11: Front Flower Bed Begins

Do you ever rest??!!! LOL!!!! Seriously though, looking really good Scott. I think those daylilies with added shutters and mulch is going to really enhance that bedroom window area.

I can see what drew you to the house … got a lot of character. Man, with this original picture you can now really see all the changes you have made thus far … fantastic job Scott.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

No rest for the wicked.. Still too much to do. Besides, need to get those clumps into the ground. At least the iced jade.. Wife wants to keep that one safe and in a good location, which, is not going to be here.

It’s a really nice house.. Just been neglected for a while.. Once it’s all cleaned up and spit shined, it’ll be a beauty.

I’d been taking pictures of the place since the first viewing, on March 2007, which was the first time we viewed it with our agent.

Didn’t get back into it again until July of 2007, when we found out that our house was going to sell, after it went off market.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Well in mind those can be some of the best houses. They truly become a labor of love … so satisfying as you see the tranformation take placce, and with your own two hands.

That window is really gonna be a beauty … something to behold once all those Lilies begin to bloom! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

beautiful house and I’m with GramT: “Don’t you ever stop???!!!”

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Nice job Scott.You have really improved the look of your place.You really should consider taking it easy in this heat though. :-)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

heat? mid 90s is normal for here.. When it gets up into the 100s I fall back and relax a bit.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Yah, our kids are all out in Arizona and it is hitting 115 (F), which is average for their summer months. BUT, there is no humidity … so a very dry heat. Hmmmmm, and we want to move out there …. ;-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

It sure makes a difference with the humidity.I can barely stand watering the gardens in this heat wave we got here.It’s so humid you sweat just sitting and realaxing.Glad the heat waves don’t last toooo long here.Still I’m glad to live here where it’s usually a bit cooler.Today is another bad humidity day and calling for storms.High 90’s again but sooooo humid.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

A few degrees cooler here ( high 80’s to low 90’s ) but otherwise we have the same forecast, Bon! Just plain nasty.
And, Scott, you have a lovely home, which will only improve with all your effort.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

Scott, you never do stop with your work. Your home is a beauty ….and such improvements. Best to take

it easy in this heat though and hoping you are taking in fluids.

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

Nice transformation and the architecture of your home is beautiul.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

ARE SOME OF YOUR ROOMS BELOW GROUND LEVEL SCOTT? ON MY ONE STAY IN AMERICA IN PENNSILVANIA I LOVED THE CELLARS UNDER THE HOUSES AND ALSO THE PORCHES WHICH ARE FEATURES WE DONT HAVE IN BRITAIN ALSO THE SIZE OF THE PLOTS WITH NO FENCES WE HAVE SMALL PLOTS ALWAYS FENCED IN .
REGARDS MIKE

-- MIKE MILTON COMMON U.K.

I know most homes here in NL (Canada) have 8’ deep foundations because of the frost you have to go at least 4 feet under so most people put an entire floor under the ground with bedrooms, recreation rooms, living rooms…....That is the way my house is.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

I wouldn’t consider it livable space. According to building codes you also have to have an egress window which you can escape out of in case of emergency.

Anyway…... Nope.. It’s one big basement (cellar) space with awful floors and not quite high enough head room.. It’s not bad, but the HVAC duct work is in the way to where it brushes the top of the head.

It’s on the fixerupper list of things to do.. Going to pull up the floor tiles, clean, redo the walls and get it spit shined.

It’s rare around here to have a basement though.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Yah, but you can see the potential and that is what really matters. Scott, do most of the houses have cellars away form the house in Kentucky?? Here in Michigan we are lucky cuz most of the homes have very liveable space in their basements.

When we finally head out to Arizona it will be quite a change for us, cuz they don’t have basements out there at all. Not sure what that will be like cuz in our 34 years of marriage we have always had a basement.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Most of them do not have basements, no. Not sure the reason, may be water table issues.. This basement, so far this year has been dry. It needs to pass the 3 year test of staying fairly dry before any work is done to it on putting up any walls and getting it built out better.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b