When a house is not lived in full time, and you’re in a country where professional gardeners are a rare breed (Swedes do it all by themselves), and the people living in it is in another part of the world…and one particular person focuses all her time on interiors….then some areas of the yard sadly get ignored!!
Did you know weeds grow larger than YOU???
Did your garden ever look like this?
Didn’t think so!
This is supposed to be the path from the pool house down to the lake.
And how do you like the pool house…can you see it?
The yard had taken over….
I had enough!
My mother spearheaded the “ATTACK OF THE WEEDS” effort. She fixed all the flower beds and trees. Then we decided to attack the pool house area filled with stinging nettles and weeds the height if me (I’m 5’9)!
With my mother around no weed was safe!!
My brother came over and helped out. My dad kindly cuts the lawn every week which is a 4 hour job. (TACK PAPPA!)
As always things here become a family affair….
When you pull up a mountain of weed and cut tons of branches, then the only way to get rid of it is to burn it. Something I would never dare without my dad being here!! (That’s the midsummer tree cross against the barn)
But we made some head way… this area got attacked…
I had no idea what a great work out it is to yank out weeds the size of yourself!!
Now we can see the fence!!!
After weed pulling Evelina, Peter’s girlfriend, cut down the grass.
More raking…
This is the progress so far. It’s not done yet, but it’s on it’s way….and at least we have a path!!
Hurray! Next step will be adding a stone path. But this is after days of weeding!
And it went from this…
A mountain of weeds…
…to this. Not done yet but we can see the lake!!! We temporarily laid out the old pool deck wood panels. Can’t wait to make this area pretty.
A new stone deck was added last summer to the pool, so things are slowly shaping up! Slowly.
Have you done work in your yard this summer?
You're Getting there…
Lucky you, you have a family that helps in the garden.
Me? I do it all by myself,
although mine is a lot smaller than your garden.
What a beautiful beautiful yard with or without weeds!!! Dreamy!
Wow, those are happy weeds to have grown so tall. It all looks great now. I spent the day battling the clay soil of VA after ripping out old overgrown bushes and vinca vines that were consuming the space. Today I'm off to Sislers to buy pea gravel to surround my new boxwoods. It feels like I'm off to buy a great piece of furniture – interesting how happy gardening can make you feel.
It's great therapy and exercise!!
No wonder you stay so slim! Looking lovely my friend! And what a great family you have! You are very blessed.
Enjoy your last days in Europe and come back safe!
Kramar i rymden,
Mon
Can't let weeds get that high where I live or else I'd have to be wary of snakes. Lovely to have your family help you out. That would be a tremendous one woman job w/out them.
Oh my!!! That's a whole lot of weeds. As I'm reading this and looking at the photos, first thing that came to mind was how in the world did you get in that jungle with all sorts of creepy crawlers living in there? haha…sorry, I think of those things. BUT you did it and it looks gorgeous. Wow, you are one lucky girl to be able to go to this beautiful home every year…it's heaven. Enjoy your time with your lovely family 🙂
xo, Iris
I'm not a fan of bugs or things you can find….made sure we wore gloves!!
Fantastic transformation! I can't believe it… Wow. How fun to watch the before and after. So much work!
You are so right about the weeds! I live on a Mountain and I swear I fight the weeds daily! If I didn't they would overtake my home, gardens and grounds!
You and your family did a beautiful job!
You are so right about the weeds! I live on a Mountain and I swear I fight the weeds daily! If I didn't they would overtake my home, gardens and grounds!
You and your family did a beautiful job!
Way to get the family involved! Looks like those weeds didn't stand a chance at the hands of you all! Not much yardwork here, WAY to hot! so the weeds just get higher. Hope you are having an amazing time in Sweden….looks like so much fun. So idealic.
We have a lot of weeds with out the awsome parents!
Love the sweet picture of your son 🙂 Haven't been to Paris in a while but it is one of the greats!
Pulling weeds is so much exercise…I am sure everyone was a bit sore from that outing. Progress was made so it was worth it!!
That task needs a lot of effort to be finish but it's really worth it after all. surely you got some muscle pain after this, am I right?
Heya i am for the first time here. I came across this board and I find It really useful & it helped me out a lot. I hope to give something back and aid others like you aided me.
[url =http://viewdesigncompany.com/0127/1957.html]http://viewdesigncompany.com/0127/1957.html[/url]
http://viewdesigncompany.com/0127/1957.html
Heya i am for the first time here. I came across this board and I find It really useful & it helped me out a lot. I hope to give something back and aid others like you aided me.
[url=http://viewdesigncompany.com/0127/1957.html]http://viewdesigncompany.com/0127/1957.html[/url]
http://viewdesigncompany.com/0127/1957.html
Wow that was strange. I just wrote an very long comment but
after I clicked submit my comment didn't appear. Grrrr…
well I'm not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say superb blog!
Truly when someone doesn't be aware of then its
up to other people that they will help, so here it occurs.
Also visit my blog post – my singing monsters cheats
Truly when someone doesn't be aware of then its
up to other people that they will help, so here it occurs.
Also visit my blog post – my singing monsters cheats
Truly when someone doesn’t be aware of then its
up to other people that they will help, so here it occurs.
Also visit my blog post – my singing monsters cheats