More Progress

Here's the mostly completed front half of my flower garden. I'll eventually take it back to the stone steps, but I kinda ran out of flowers that weren't weeds. Hopefully, we'll head to the greenhouse for more perennials this weekend and I can finish it to the stone walkway. The goal is flowers in front of the stone walkway and veggies behind it. However, there's a peony plant, two bushes and a clump of tulips I'll leave for this season in the back. All in all, most of what's in there was salvaged from around the property plus some purchased phlox, salvia (including some really cool mis-marked discount salvia) and lamb's ear. There was a butterfly bush there already and something else that I can't identify quite yet, but I at least recognize it's not a weed :)


Here are my veggies I started inside. I'll supplement a little and start some seeds outside, as well as buy some tomato plants so I theoretically have a rotating harvest. My friend had used similar starters and hers all died before being planted, so I'm kinda hesitant about these.
Here's some prettiness that I just need to not screw up! Below are our apple and crabapple trees in bloom. They were actually much prettier yesterday before the windstorm, but I hadn't charged the camera. Here's the next project which is my rock garden on the front of the house. This side of the house gets lots of sun and is the first thing you see when you drive up, so I'm going for something low maintenance, like a rock garden. I got over my fear of the roto-tiller and tilled it up, then WyDOT nicely left these big ol' posts in our field, so we decided to salvage them to outline the garden. If the wind stays calm we'll get the weed mat down soon and go pick up some stone then I'll continue my plan to 'plant it" with old things like a wooden cart, a horse-drawn plow, an old pot-bellied stove, wagon wheels, milk cans, a crab pot etc. I like to think of it as "redneck sheik"


Hopefully I can get this done before the weekend. I kinda miss my birdfeeder outside the kitchen window. We had a visit from a Lazuli Bunting the other day (pic below from Cornell Ornithology) who is my favorite so far.