First Time Landscaping

Hi Guys!! Can you believe its Spring???? I know  it's been a while! My hubby and I  have so many life changes going on. I can't wait to share them all very soon!  Please  continue to hang in there with me  even though my post haven't been as frequent.  Chicago's weather has been great so  hubby and I decided to give our flower bed a much needed  makeover. Neither one of us has a green thumb but we figured it out. I also think we did well for our first time as landscapers. 

This is the before... so embarassing. We totally neglected this flower bed and focused a lot on the inside of the house.

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The first thing we did was dig up all the weeds. We had so many!!

It took us about 45 minutes to pull all the weeds. Once that was complete we raked and turned over the soil.

The next we did was put down Vigoro 40 in. x 36 ft. Natural Weed Block. It was $15 from Home Depot.

We planted the bushes and flowers first before we put down the weed block.

We used these fabric pegs to hold the weed block in place. We only needed one bag because a lot of the weed block fabric overlapped.

For the flowers we kept it super simple and cheap.

Here are the bushes we used. We purchased two and they were 19.99 each.

After all the weed block was laid down we used rubberized mulch. The mulch was about $6 a bag. We purchased 6 bags. We went with rubberized mulch before the regular mulch tends to blow everywhere.

Here is the after!! Also, our grass is almost green again.... Every year we deal with this grass issue. I think we did really well for our first time. I would like to start working on flowers for our back yard next.

Total Cost: $120.00 (includes: mulch, weed  blocker fabric, flowers. bushes, and top soil .

Thank you guys for coming back to visit my blog. Also, if you have suggestions for projects you would like  to see please let me know.