Landscaping

Our new next door neighbours wanted to make a change to the "jungle" between our two houses.  We got permission from strata to take out the existing non-blooming shrubs.  We asked the landscape company that has the contract in our complex for a quote and their price was huge.  Don next door said "let's do it ourselves".

For the past couple of weeks, Cec and Don have really been busy.  We had a tree that was planted far too close to our house.  It hindered putting up Christmas lights and played havoc with the gutters.  It had purple berries that would fall and stain the sidewalk.  As it was smaller than the 12" trunk width we could remove it without problems from the city.  We got permission from our strata landscaping committee to remove and replace it.  

The stump of this tree was huge.  Thanks to Nik and Wayne who came over with a chain saw, it was gone.  We replaced the tree with a pink dogwood!  

This is the before picture.   When the azaleas bloom next year, they will be visible, not hidden.

Our neighbours want to remove their purple berry tree and replace it with a dogwood too.  They are waiting for permission from strata. Their tree was planted away from the house and the trunk isn't 12".

I planted the barrel!  Thanks to Kathy for picking out the appropriate plants.  The barrel is plastic so it won't rot.  It's sitting on a cement city pipe that's ugly so we covered it with bark mulch.  I didn't even know it existed until we pulled out the jungle.