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The new bed that Lew worked so hard on is flourishing and got some finishing touches today with a few pieces of garden 'art' - birdie bath, sundial, frog house - tucked in here and there.
A favorite that my sister bought me years ago, this one gets a bit more worn each year.
The gardening saga continues. Instead of the wood beams or black plastic we have bordering other beds, we decided to go with a rock border on the bed Lew made last week. They'll last forever and I won't be worrying about rotting and wood-loving critters.
The impatiens we bought last night went into the ground today. Little by little we're getting everything planted and should be pretty much finished with everything this weekend. Unless, of course, I see something else I like. :)
Ta da! I finally got a good picture of a bird, Stacy! LOL! ;) This noisy little guy is one of several who live at one of the nurseries we frequent. He posed pretty for me - in between screeching like a siren for his dinner! - this evening while we were picking up more annuals for the garden.
So, today's picture was a toss-up between these flowers we just planted or the beautiful bouquet I got from my son for Mother's Day. I thought my tacky pink flamingo added a bit more interest. lol I bought the whirligig a few years ago as a joke and surprisingly have grown rather attached to the little beast. It kind of 'whimsifies' the bed - I like a little whimsy here and there.
My traditional favorite way to spend Mother's Day is digging in the dirt. It's usually safe to plant in our zone then, so the goodies we got before finally made their way into their new home today. I'm anxious to see how this mailbox bed fills in.
After a day of hard work for Lew, (more pics on my blog) the new bed is ready to receive its euonymous bushes.
(without flash)
(with flash)
(If you enlarge the photos, the stamens look like they're painted with gold paint! Isn't that wild?)
At the risk of y'all getting sick to death of my flower/yard photos, I just couldn't resist our first rhododendron bloom of the season. And this is from a bush I thought was dying years ago. It's all scraggly and spindly and only gets a few blooms a year, but the flower is so unique and pretty I just hate to dig it up.
Lew got the replacement azalea (second from left) in the ground today, and the front corner of the yard is looking much better now without the dead bush or the gaping hole it left.
We went to another nursery today and finally got the shrubs (euonymous) for alongside the garage that we've been talking about forever. Also picked up a hosta and bleeding hearts for the mailbox garden, along with ...
... a hanging verbena for the deck, and some New Guinea impatiens for an existing bed of sedum and lilies.
Still have more annuals to get, but these will give us a start-up with this season's planting.
And, the answer to yesterday's "what is it" - you all were so close!...
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One of our kitties' scratching toys... they scratch them to pieces!
Well done, ladies! Thanks for playing! :)
Stopped at our local nursery on the way home from the dentist and picked up the beginnings of a mailbox garden I'm planning to plant... 
... some sweet little daisies, black-eyed susans, a couple of coleus varieties, and forget-me-nots. 
And a bonus photo, Lew took a picture of me getting up close and personal with my new plants.
One of several sedums we planted a couple of years ago to fill in some bare spots. They're definitely doing what we intended - spreading like crazy and coming back healthier and greener each year. A nice, low maintenance plant, this one gets pretty, little yellow flowers later in the season.
The new bed that Lew worked so hard on is flourishing and got some finishing touches today with a few pieces of garden 'art' - birdie bath, sundial, frog house - tucked in here and there.
A favorite that my sister bought me years ago, this one gets a bit more worn each year.
The gardening saga continues. Instead of the wood beams or black plastic we have bordering other beds, we decided to go with a rock border on the bed Lew made last week. They'll last forever and I won't be worrying about rotting and wood-loving critters.
The impatiens we bought last night went into the ground today. Little by little we're getting everything planted and should be pretty much finished with everything this weekend. Unless, of course, I see something else I like. :)
Ta da! I finally got a good picture of a bird, Stacy! LOL! ;) This noisy little guy is one of several who live at one of the nurseries we frequent. He posed pretty for me - in between screeching like a siren for his dinner! - this evening while we were picking up more annuals for the garden.
So, today's picture was a toss-up between these flowers we just planted or the beautiful bouquet I got from my son for Mother's Day. I thought my tacky pink flamingo added a bit more interest. lol I bought the whirligig a few years ago as a joke and surprisingly have grown rather attached to the little beast. It kind of 'whimsifies' the bed - I like a little whimsy here and there.
After a day of hard work for Lew, (more pics on my blog) the new bed is ready to receive its euonymous bushes.
(without flash)
(with flash)
At the risk of y'all getting sick to death of my flower/yard photos, I just couldn't resist our first rhododendron bloom of the season. And this is from a bush I thought was dying years ago. It's all scraggly and spindly and only gets a few blooms a year, but the flower is so unique and pretty I just hate to dig it up.
Lew got the replacement azalea (second from left) in the ground today, and the front corner of the yard is looking much better now without the dead bush or the gaping hole it left.
... a hanging verbena for the deck, and some New Guinea impatiens for an existing bed of sedum and lilies.
Well done, ladies! Thanks for playing! :)
... some sweet little daisies, black-eyed susans, a couple of coleus varieties, and forget-me-nots. 
And a bonus photo, Lew took a picture of me getting up close and personal with my new plants.
One of several sedums we planted a couple of years ago to fill in some bare spots. They're definitely doing what we intended - spreading like crazy and coming back healthier and greener each year. A nice, low maintenance plant, this one gets pretty, little yellow flowers later in the season.
