This past weekend was the first day of Spring, and a nice enough weekend to get some serious yardwork done.
Here's the front of the house, complete with the Senetti in the pots. I am thinking it'd look great with
this on the door. Donations are being accepted ;) I can dream!
We saw these three helicopters flying in formation Saturday. Just thought it was pretty neat. Guess you had to be there.
A friend of ours (Thanks Mardy!) was gracious enough to let me come dig some forsythia. We are going to try them along the fence in the backyard. Hey, if they don't work or we end up wanting to do something else, they were free! We think they'll do great, though.
This is the new growth on the hydrangea Danya gave us when we moved in last fall. Exciting!
Here is the mulched flower bed out front where I tore out a bunch of monkey grass and straightened up some. It seems like there have been moles in the yard at some time or another and patches of the monkey grass weren't spared. Hopefully when it grows out some more those ugly parts will be covered - but if not, I now know how to separate and replant it! It's amazing that people pay for monkey grass and forsythia and the like in a way, it propogates so readily and it seems to be easy so far. Hey, I'm still young and naive and new at all this!
Speaking of young (and dumb, or just uninformed) these are the black-eyed susan looking plants (coreopsis? who knows) that were out front when we bought the house. They were dead and looked terrible all winter, but lo and behold I cut them back and there's new growth everywhere! We are going to give them a chance before yanking them up for something more hardy. The color will be nice since there is so much green out there...
Which is also why I have this Senetti in pots out front. Senetti is something I never heard of, but is apparently a pretty good little flower, similar to a daisy, that's good for the cool snaps in the beginning of Spring and will last until it gets hot. You can read more about it
here. We found it for $10 a pot downtown at the
Farmer's Market and
Gardens of Babylon, where we also got an Elephant Ear plant (
if you're not familiar.
a big one) I hope it grows as big as Aunt Frances', but I know we will have to dig it up or mulch over it each year, but it should still grow larger with each passing year. We'll see, though.
And THIS is the highlight of the weekend! ALL the trumpet vine is finally down from the side of the house! We are vindicated! I can't believe that crap was all up the side of our house like it was and we never noticed. Believe me, we will if it ever happens again! If you don't know about the trumpet vine drama, read about it in one of my first blog
posts.
We'll keep y'all posted as we're planning on some veggies and sunflowers and other fun stuff after Easter and frost - should be an adventure if nothing else :) Here's hoping Bugs doesn't eat any of it... and that she's able to help keep the rabbits and squirrels away!
