The garden sure is doing well......

My front garden that I planted a mere 3 years ago is lush and full of life. Not only ants and spiders that like to dwell there...but all the wonderful colors of the flowers that I've planted and have been given as well. It sure is nice to sit in my front yard on my bench and sip on a tea while the neighbors walk their dogs and I am gazing at my workmanship. I feel as though it's a "Baby" and I'm so proud to show it off when people are walking by and say, "Wow...sure is looking good" As they probably remember it before all the plants and hard work went into it. When it was a bare yard that the school kids used as a "path" to get to school each day. Here are a few pictures of the garden as it is today May 31st, 2009.

Taracotta


Here are a "mesh" of snow in the summer and baby blue eyes that decided to "Co-mingle" LOL It doesn't look that bad and so I won't try and separate them.....YET! LOL Right behind them is a mass of lovely geraniums that will soon bloom a sea of purple....


Here is a closer look at the greenery of the purple geranium...given to me by my friend Crystal


Here are the beginnings of my favorite flower in the garden....it will soon have stems that will shoot off several deep red lilies....I just love these.



Here are the "yellow loosestrife" that will soon have the yellow bell flowers swaying back and forth from the long green stems....they multiply rapidly and in three years they've been given away, separated and I STILL have a ton. LOL


Here is a side view of my front garden. It's grown beautifully in 3 years and I couldn't have asked for better results from ALL my plants in those years. I guess with a little TLC and of course sun and water...anything can happen! LOL


This is the view from my front door area...I will see the tall Yellow loosestrife show their bells soon and it will be a wonderful view from my livingroom...just as the dwarf forsythia (which has now shed it's flowers and is going green) to the right of the loosestrife showed me it's wonderful yellow flowers for a few weeks earlier in the month.