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I am a project person and love to keep a photo diary of our progress. In 2005 we purchased this home with the front so overgrown you couldn't see the house from the street. Very old unpruned roses surrounded the front yard with an AZ Ash in the center of each lawn area that had NEVER been pruned, limbs drooping to 4 ft from the ground.
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Comment by Dianne Felder on December 4, 2009 at 5:20pm - In a way I think that's part of the fun of landscaping projects. They do take shape then we can keep tweeking the look. Our back yard is the same way. We got most of the hardscape in, got the lawn going good and planted the fruit trees but now am thinking the lemon never really did take hold and after 4 years I'm going to give up and yank it out and my dwarf white grapefruit that I dragged around in a giant pot from '98 to '06 isn't what I want to grow up to have a lot of fruit from so it is going too. Deep sigh.
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Comment by Kristin on December 4, 2009 at 4:41pm - wow I see what you mean! Certainly a large project! My foreclosure that I bought this summer was also in need of a lot of love. I'll post up some photos of my own soon. Love seeing before and current pictures! I never call them "after" pictures because my projects are never really done- just in their next phase :)
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