This is the final posting about the Sheridan renovation. This home has sold and is now being enjoyed by its new owner.

Here is a link to the finished project page.

When we bought the property, it had been a rental home for several years, and the landscaping was very overgrown. As we have progressed through spring, we have seen many beautiful plants come out of hiding and put on a show of colorful blossoms. We guessed someone who loved to garden owned the home at one time and have learned from long-time residents of the neighborhood that this was so.

This is the second pile of pruning from the week’s work.

This past week, I have been working in the morning hours while it is cool to reclaim the beds and front yard. So far we have removed fencing, cleaned up fence rows, pruned bushes and pulled weeds. Plants, including knock out roses, day lilies, peonies, iris and cannas, have been transplanted to new areas of the yard.

I have pruned back the holly and box woods and azaleas back to their original cutting lines. While they look severely whacked back right now, with luck they will have plenty of healthy new growth by the time we are ready to market the house.

The poison oak and poison ivy are gone. Where we were unable to pull out the weeds, we have sprayed. The clematis and climbing rose have been staked. The beds have been mulched. Things are coming along.

I love this lone purple spider wort growing the next door neighbor’s driveway.

The bride’s bouquet

An aside. Back in April, when the iris were blooming, a friend of mine postponed her wedding celebration because of Covid restrictions. Instead, on their originally planned wedding day, she and her fiancé choose to have a small private civil ceremony (Part 1) to legally tie the knot and rescheduled the larger, wedding celebration (Part 2) to the fall. I asked her if she would like me to make her a bride’s bouquet for the small event, and she said yes, mentioning that yellow was her favorite color. So, I fashioned yellow iris and ferns from the project yard, along daisies and rosemary from my own home, into a bouquet that became a part of the Part 1 wedding event. I believe the gardener who originally planted the flowers at the project home would be pleased to know her blossoms were part of this happy occasion.