Flowers

 

So the story behind our yard, (which by the way is coming along, we are making HUGE progress)... Apparently, the origianl owners of the home had a beautiful, immaculate yard with all kinds of flowers and landscaping. They were an elderly couple, and I think they had to go into a retirement home or something like that. So the people who lived here after them weren't quite up for the challenge of maintaining such a yard. They let it get overgrown, and even had a dog which destroyed most of the plants, so they decided just to rip it all out. My neighbor said she came over to visit one day and saw what the lady was doing and was like...STOP!!! She caught her in time to stop her from ripping out the last plant. So in all our back yard of Bindweed... one plant has remained, and it is so beautiful! This morning, I went out and cut some of the flowers to bring them inside. You can see in the photo, through the window in the background is the plant, clear back in the corner of the yard.

So we've decided to revamp much of the backyard. We've pulled out some of the curbing and are making a much smaller, and more managable flower bed/garden. When Clark went to visit his family this past weekend, he came home with 5 trees, 2 rosebushes, 2 lilac bushes, 2 dogwood plants, lots of flowers and even plants to start our garden: tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers, etc... Mind you, I have NEVER in my life ever grown anything in a garden, so this is all a new experience for me. Gratefully, Clark's parents are pro's so they can walk us through it. How hard can it be, really?

I guess we'll find out! Stay tuned for upcoming AFTER posts of the yard!