I checked the weather report and it looks like it'll be 40-degree weather tomorrow with the snow coming in on Sunday...I guess we'll decide tomorrow morning if a hike is OK...I'd at least like to get Storm out to Surrey Ridge dog park for a few laps...

Huskyluv wrote:

Can't wait to see your new plants in the ground Jenn! Even if you hid them at first, how would you explain their sudden new appearance in the yard?

good luck on the buttering up the hubby!

Ken does not pay any attention to the yard so he will not notice them. the most he does in mow the lawn and weed wack.
i do all the rest of it, fertilizing, weed picking, planting, mulching, planing, building and so on. i really do love it, its the "harder" labor stuff i hate, like moving that damn rock, and trying to get rid of the juniper!

ok i got lucky and i think Ken has given up on the plant fight! not one word was said to me about my loot he saw them in the shed and i have said somethings about them and not a word from him i think he is "getting it"
so some new update pictures.

i finished the shed on Sat took from 12-6pm, the rock took about 2hrs to move from the front to the 2 sides of the shed, i had to clean all the dirt and grass out of it by shifting it over fencing and then dumping in a bucket to walk back.

my $40 steal from sams club, it is 4x7ft! need to till and fill this weekend to get my seeds in

cucumber and squash that out grew the other container

mini lilac

weeping birch

my root hostas and flowering lambs ear

irises, slavia, and my full size lilac

close up of the bloom smells so good

p.s. maybe the birthday gnome will bring me a new camera.....

Glad the hubby was okay with it! All the plants look great. Oooh, now you're making me want to get a lilac plant. I planted my lavender plants today and they smelled wonderful too, combine that with the gardenias in full bloom...I had the house windows open all day and hubby came home and asked if I had sprayed the house with air freshener!

Wow, 6 hours on the shed project! Sounds exhausting but I'll bet that was a workout unto itself!

look what i came home to last night!!!


first iris of the season
these were given to me by our realtor after she divided hers up the fall after we moved in. i think i need to divide them up for the first time this fall i think.

very pretty!!

It's gorgeous Jenn!

Lowes happens to be on my way home tonight....

Uh oh!

Nothing at lowes but holy hell I killed my self today, 7am wake up, digging rock by 8:20, I have the start of a raised bed on the side of the house even got ken to leave me the truck, I got a yard of dirt (hole back of a pick up!) Unloaded the truck and Got my raised garden stardted planted half of the HD plants. At sweet tomatoes for dinner and will do the rest in the dark... all by my self pics will had to wait till daylight tomorrow. Oh and I got a good farmers tan!

Can't wait to see the results!

Ok i had to wait till i got to work to post the pictures so here is how everything is looking! if you want to compare look on page 1 of this post to see the start of everything.


my new flowers planted under the weeping birch, the blocks are there to keep Jack from digging up the tree!


in my sad shade corner

those 3 larger ones i got to replant the one garden that nothing came back in

growing growing growing

new veggie garden!

cucumber, tomatoes, parsley eggplant, strawberries, peppers, and zucchini

front corner bush that is taking off with no care (best kind of plants!)

front garden bed, growing, growing, growing










and my 16'X5' raised bed that i just made on the side of the house, need some more stone and dirt with plants and its done! (remember that pic i posted at the start of all the rock there!) now to do the flagstone pathway next to it.

Looking good Jenn!!

WOWZA!!! Everything is looking amazing! I love love love those coral bells!

OMG that raised garden bed on the side of the house (last pic) is fantastic! I love it! Can't wait to see it complete.

Val,
im hoping by June, most of the garden will be in bloom we are having rain all day today, in fact it was sleeting in the morning and i put some shake n feed down last night on the flowers, perfect timing. i put up a fence around the veggie garden after i took the pics as i was out front and came to the back and jack ran up to me with dirt all over his face he was eating the bio compost!!!! and all most took up the one strawberry plant, i also figured Sierra will start eating the veggies as soon as they start growing so i got the fence up that afternoon!
we also come home yesterday and someone is flipping the house across from us and ken went out to unload the car and 2 guys were at the corner of our yard checking out all my plants, i took that as a nice complement he said he should have hired me to do the planting!

i might bust out the plastic to finish that new raised bed because i really only have this month to get things in the ground before we get to hot here..... it requires me to go to a "garden" center to buy the bushes i need unless HD and Loews gets them in but no luck this past weekend on that
i love playing in dirt!

i had to take pictures of my front irises again i can NOT wait for them to bloom check out the size if this head!


and my Allium flower starting to really bloom

these were bulbs i planted in Dec. i have 8-10 that are coming up

Looking good! And wow those are some big irises!

who stoped at lowes and HD on the way home from work.... pics to come

I got the bed done this weekend! will post more tomorrow, just had to share

Ok Ladies, i had rain all weekend but i still managed to get some plants in the ground and finish the raised bed.
here is a before picture from 2yrs ago.

and here it is now

view from the street (well i was standing in the grass but you get the idea of head on) we just need to put in the flagstone walk way to the gate



the bush on the left is a bush cinquefoil- gold finger (yellow flowers)
the bush on the right is a russian sage ( tall purple spiks)
and the flowers in the front are snow in summer (white flower)
i also bough 2 more low ground cover perennials

speedwell- veronica

stone crop-sedum

and some of my irises that im in LOVE with

You've been busy, girl! Love the raised bed you did, it looks really good! Do you have wood panels on two sides of your raised bed?

Val,
yes it is 1-16'x1' (long side) and 2- 5'x6" (stacked on the back wall) pieces of treated wood that i stained. the flagstone is not cheap and i did not want to waste the money on 2 sides that are not that visible. once the sage gets bigger it will hide the wood

if you get tired of my irises just let me know, i just LOVE them and you only get he blooms for a few days right around now and they are gone for the rest of the summer so im taking a ton of pics, they have never looked this good, and god they smell fantastic!

They're beautiful! That's one reason I haven't got for irises, they only bloom for such a short time!

Jenn, you're not allowed to come to my house anymore, as my backyard and front yard will never be that pretty!!! I'm too lazy!