Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Gardening

John, Alex and I just spent the last 3 days working on our front gardens. We're finally finished! I wish I had a "before" photo so that you could get the full effect. It looked TERRIBLE before! I haven't done anything with the gardens since we moved in a year and a half ago. On Sunday I was sitting outside and I don't know what came over me but I just went and got the shovel and got to work!


I guess I inspired John to get to work too because he had Monday and Tuesday off and he spent both days with me working away! We made 5 trips to Lowes to get all of the stuff. Alex had fun picking out flowers though. Most of the flowers that you see are ones that he picked out. :)




We planted blueberry bushes too!


These are John's favorites.

We put in the scalloped brick border and took out all of the gross wood mulch and replaced it with rubber mulch. It's really windy here and the rubber stuff won't blow away like the wood stuff.

I'm so glad that it's done and we're very excited that we have nice front gardens! It's our first garden so John and I are both pretty proud. :) We had NO idea that gardens were this much work!



10 comments:

Bellaidea said...

Now you can take more photos with flowers and ...scrap them:)

Doreen Vasquez said...

I saw that on FB too, the pic John posted...LMAO!!!
Oh, BTW...good job guys! :0)

Diana Waite said...

oh, wow! Those flowers are GORGEOUS!! interesting to see the variety--we don't have anything like that here. Congrats on your new gardens.

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

How fun!! I loveeeeeeeeeee the photos! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

BRANDY said...

I feel you sister! Your lilies look beautiful. Gardening is HARD work. We have been working on ours going on 3 years now. Everyday I get home from work, i walk the garden in both the front yard and back. Yours looks amazing...nice work!

Angie said...

pretty flowers. such a nice house. iam from ok also. Iam from ada. Where r u from? I just want to say that i love your work, you are so talented. have a great day.

Angie

Lisa Andrews said...

Your yard is looking so pretty! Loving all of those flowers.

Mel said...

OMG Jilly...normally I would side with you but that FB post IS pretty damn funny:) Great job on the flowers. We are a long way from flowers here in NY...so I will just admire yours. Hope you had a great weekend!

ChelseaL said...

How does your garden grow Miss Jilly? LOL!! Your garden is beautiful!!! To bad we couldn't had sit outside the other and enjoyed it!! Stupid wind!! :)

Melissa said...

You guys did such an awesome job!!! Looks beautiful!
Looooooove the pic and the comment that Jizz posted on facebook...roflmao!!!!