Flower Bed Makeover

When we first moved into our house the flowerbed out front looked nice. It had small shrubs and red mulch. Over time the mulch started getting dull looking and we noticed there was carpet around the shrubs. :( Yes...who ever lived here before us, put the old carpet in the flowerbed. So we took up the shrubs and gave them to my parents. We replaced the red mulch with more red mulch. About $100 worth!

Over a year or so we started having these mushrooms to come up. So, after doing some research online, we decided to replace the mulch with pea gravel. This past weekend we started cleaning out the flower bed and getting it ready. I think we picked the hottest weekend of the year to do it, but we got it ready to put down poison. Here are some before pictures.

We are nowhere to being done. After the poison, we have to figure out the lighting we want to go in there. Saturday evening we went to Lowe's to price accent lights. We are still deciding if we want Electrical or Solar Lights. I think we are leaning more towards electrical lights, because they are brighter.