Put it to Bed
A garden bed, that is! Here is a picture of the bed that runs along the driveway and the side of the house. This picture was from the day J got the keys to the house.
You can barely even see what I'm talking about, but it's that area full of some sort of green groundcover. Sometime last spring, we tore out all the groundcover, planted a few plants, and here's what that looked like...
Here you can see we got a matching downspout diverter and buried a flat diverter so the water would go out onto the driveway. And lookie there, there were bricks running alongside that bed...who knew? Couldn't see them for all the over-grown greenery. We planted some flowers and mulched the bed after this point, but I can't find any pictures of that.
That brings us to this last weekend, when J decided to start the project of diverting the front downspout to drain to the back of the house instead of down the driveway. That would involve digging a trench along the house and burying a drain pipe. Which is exactly what he did...
Do you see that white PVC pipe sticking out? That's connected to the front downspout. Yay! You may also noticed that we raised the garden bed to near-level, instead of running it down alongside the slanted driveway. We thought it just looked more finished, don't you agree? It was a LOT of work though! Here's another angle of the new bed...
You can barely even see what I'm talking about, but it's that area full of some sort of green groundcover. Sometime last spring, we tore out all the groundcover, planted a few plants, and here's what that looked like...
Here you can see we got a matching downspout diverter and buried a flat diverter so the water would go out onto the driveway. And lookie there, there were bricks running alongside that bed...who knew? Couldn't see them for all the over-grown greenery. We planted some flowers and mulched the bed after this point, but I can't find any pictures of that.
That brings us to this last weekend, when J decided to start the project of diverting the front downspout to drain to the back of the house instead of down the driveway. That would involve digging a trench along the house and burying a drain pipe. Which is exactly what he did...
Do you see that white PVC pipe sticking out? That's connected to the front downspout. Yay! You may also noticed that we raised the garden bed to near-level, instead of running it down alongside the slanted driveway. We thought it just looked more finished, don't you agree? It was a LOT of work though! Here's another angle of the new bed...
Here you can see where J buried the downspout. Along with the beautiful new orange lilies we planted :)
This project took J most of Saturday, and then I helped him finish it up on Sunday. This was back-breaking work, but I think well worth the effort.
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