A little garden

It's nothing spectacular, but I did manage to put one small garden in this summer...
Behind Henry's play area. He and his friend Roni were playing in the sandbox one day and I was pulling a few weeds. I noticed a pile of rocks that we hadn't done anything with yet and was looking for something to do. Before I knew it I had started a little rock wall and had plans for a simple low maintenance shade garden. Voila! We're going to continue the river rock the rest of the way around the play area to make mowing a bit easier...then take it from there.

Itching to garden

We haven't done much planting yet b/c we have plans to paint the house (though, it didn't happen this summer....too much rain and not enough money....!!!). BUT...once upon a time, a gardener must have lived here because we have a rhodie, lilac, forsythia and this huge honeysuckle...as well as a great bunch of spectacular peony, these awesome orange poppy and some lilies & irises. I can't wait to get to work!

View From Front

Here are a few pictures from the front of the house. We have our bird houses up on the posts and the arbor mostly finished...we still need to finish trimming the arbor then get it all painted (fence & arbor....and the whole house. UGH!)

Need some sympathy from my west coast friends...

This picture was taken at THE END OF APRIL!!! Can you believe it?! We had one lone hyacinth bloom. CRAZY. This is taking some getting used to (and ALOT of whining!)