Spring?!

Despite the snow and freezing temperatures, we believe that Spring is actually coming this year. In celebration of spring, we had a HUGE load of mulch dumped off in our front yard today. We are going to have our work cut out for us this weekend. There is a lot that needs to be done with the landscaping on this house, I have some ideas of what I would like to do but we haven't had the time yet and the weather has been less than perfect. I should have ripped up the hedges in front of the house this winter and planted some new, native, full growing ones but I dropped the ball on that. We tried to cut them back but it still looks bad. Jill and I are going to give it a go this spring I think. The problem is that we are going to be gone all summer and anything newly planted will need to be watered, a LOT, especially here in this southern heat. So, we start with mulch.