Beginner Gardening: Show us your yard!!!!!!!!!!!, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Our lots are very small in urban Northern CA but I console myself by reminding myself that I barely have time to take care of what we have! We put in a cottage garden two years ago after having nothing -- really, no landscaping at all, so we desperately needed some curb appeal.

Being a confirmed houseplant murderer, I was surprised to find I enjoy gardening, and that plants were a lot easier to grow outside the house. We installed the garden in phases, but here's a composite of the front yard, from our start in 2002 to what it looks like this week, two years later: