Back yard beautification

My back yard has never been very pretty. I'm slowly working on updating it. When I first moved in there were some scraggly bushes along the wall of my garage. I ripped those out but then did nothing with the area. It was just dirt. I eventually had some extra retaining wall blocks so I put those down and some red mulch. That made it look better but it needed something. I didn't want bushes so I eventually decided on some perennials. I love these perennials because you only buy them once and then they come up every year. These do ask for full sun so I'm a little nervous because it is shaded sometimes. Hopefully they survive.



It's amazing what such a small little investment in flowers can do to help out the yard. I used to never care much about the yard but now I find myself out there reading or cooking more and just enjoying it.

Here's the area with the mulch and my trash cans 

 View from the porch - We just got a hammock too!

 Here are the flowers at Lowes that I bought. I love this picture.

 Here they are planted.  As you can see I moved the trash cans behind the garage out of sight.

Our garage door broke and we had to get a new one so here's the bright shiny new door.

Oh and on our porch we have a cool propane fire pit that we got as a wedding gift. Here's a photo of us using it.