Before I became a homeowner, I would frown down upon houses in my neighborhood whose front yards looked like a scene from a horror movie.
“How can you live with an ugly brown patch” I would think. I would just figure seniors on fixed incomes lived in those homes who couldn’t afford gardeners or high water bills. Little did I know how expensive it was to maintain an attractive lawn.
Since I’ve became a homeowner back in 1995, the one expense at the top of the list has to be landscaping. At our first house, we had no sprinklers or lawn in the backyard, so we had to hire someone to do that. Shortly thereafter, we moved.
At our second house, we encountered the same problem: brown backyard with no PVC pipes. So we hired the same man to install sod and sprinklers.
And ever since then, every couple of years, we’ve removed dead ivy here, replant a rosemary shrub there. Quite frankly, I don’t want to think of the hundreds, no, thousands of dollars we’ve spent on trying not to be one of those eyesores on the block.
