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[quote=Anonymous]We moved into our current house about 4 years ago.  There are flower beds running all around the sides and front of the house.  And, then beds running down both sides of the longish, curved driveway.  It looks to me like the beds were professionally landscaped at some point - probably when the house was built about 20 years ago.  Some of the beds are around established trees.

The problem is that the flower beds are too much for me to maintain. I have to work on it in sections and I've never been able to mulch all the beds in one year.  (I work full time outside the home and have 2 young boys.)  I estimate it would take about 50-60 bags of mulch to cover all the beds.  DH asked about removing some of beds but I'm hesitant because the whole design was well thought out and I don't want to remove most of the established trees (although are 3 that I'd readily get rid of).  The other option is to keep the beds and hire a company to mulch each year.  Or maybe I should do both -- remove some beds and hire a landscaper.  We pay for lawn mowing I just have a harder spending $1000+ annually to mulch and clean up the flower beds.

I can easily see removing the beds run down the sides of the driveway.  They just get in the way, anyway.  And, if I had the money, I'd love to put down some pavers (or similar hard-scaping) to widen the front walkway and create a bit of a front patio.  It still wonder if even doing that would leave me with too much landscaping to maintain.

Has anyone removed landscaping in their yard?  How did you feel about after it was done?

Thanks![/quote]

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