Love at First Sight

It was love at first sight...

I remember when we moved into our new house just one year ago. She was and still is a beauty. There are many things I love about our house, but like I was saying earlier that I look forward to Memorial Day so much because of the whole planting flowers aspect. I absolutely LOVE IT! I look forward to the time when those buds open up and color comes through, then it just overflows with different flowers that are so beautiful. I can honestly say I do not know much about gardening, but I am learning, slowly but surely.

I found a photo of when I first planted last year. (Just from the point and shoot camera) We originally dug out this fern plant that I have no idea what it was, but 1/2 of it was dead and the other 1/2 was ugly. But we have this amazing Japanese Maple tree that needed some more color placed next to it. After we dug it out, we added some yellow coneflowers, a flower called Veronica, and some ugly pink plant which I dug out in the fall. This year the Veronica came back, but my coneflowers were a no show, so we added more coneflowers that will be orange, another Veronica plant to add to the massive one, and then this plant called Coreopsis, which will end up having lots of yellow flowers.

I spent all day day making the outside of our house look beautiful with mulch, and I'm feeling all the bending over I did all day! I shouldn't have done all this work the day before a BIG wedding tomorrow. I might not be alive Sunday after my body takes a huge beating two days in a row... haha! I'm sure I'll be posting more wedding stuff next week. Until then... here is a 2007/2008 photo. It looks much better, and hopefully they will all look good this summer and then come back next year.