Ever since I bought our house last year, I have slowly added to the landscaping outside.
There were any plants or flower beds in the yard when I bought the house, in part because it was selling at a low rate to begin with.
At the price I paid there was no incentive for the seller to make any of these improvements ahead of the sale. Since I had a job for a landscaping company for more than 3 years right out of university, I have a small amount of experience edging, weeding, trimming, planting, caring for trees, shrubs, flowers and succulents. After I cleaned up the grass, I created a flower bed in the front along the edge of the house. It’s right under the window to our kitchen and I can see the flowers from the couch whenever I’m watching TV. One project that I recently finished involved creating a barrier around our heating and air conditioning condenser to hide it from view. Since I didn’t want to impede the air flow to the sizzling compressor inside, I bought a few sheets of lattice fencing material and created an enclosure with a locking gate on one end. Finally, I planted beautiful flowers along the base of the fence, wrapping the entire condenser unit in the process. Although heating and air conditioning condensers aren’t the ugliest machines in the world, it’s nice to blend them into the natural environment with a few plants and a fence. If you’re careful, you can make a beautiful enclosure separate from the fear of impending air flow. As long as you create a swinging gate, your heating and air conditioning corporation can still get inside as well.