Did I say next weekend?

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First, the before pictures, which we remembered to take this time:






Now, the nasty surprise in the lawn - we picked out as many as we could, because the nasty buggers eat roots:



Now, the finished product, at least at the side, between the two lawns. The ugly bushes in the foundation garden will have to stay until Saturday. From front to back, we have lavender, picked out by Elizabeth; Sweet William, picked out by Claire who kept lunging for it; Marcus Sage, picked out by me; and a peony, chosen jointly by me and Elizabeth. We're going to plant annuals around them in a few weeks, just to fill them in a bit, and in the fall we'll plant some spring bulbs around them to give some early colour while the plants are coming up.