Landscaping

Last year, we started redoing our landscape in the front of our house.  We got a lot of plants from our neighbors, which saved us quite a bit of money.  We had ever intention of working on the back too, but never got around to it.  Well a few weeks ago, I finally tackled the project.  I got the plants rearranged in the back corner and added a mirrored gazing ball, which I love and have wanted for some time now.  We also finally got some new landscape lights.  They look amazing at night, we may need to get a few more though.  Jason, with the help of our neighbor, went and got some field stone from a local farmer and we used that to build a few small walls as accents.  I'm so happy with how it has turned out!!

On the side of our house, we always plant Bella's garden.  This usually just consists of wild flowers that we plant from seeds and watch grow over the summer.  Well this year, Bella want to plant tomatos for her daddy.  We decided to plant them by seed as well.  I'm amazed at how well they took and how big they are getting.  It actually went better than I thought, I'm going to have to split up the tomato plants so they keep growing larger.  I have since added a potted cucumber plant. If I have success with these two, I may start a small garden next year.

Last week we got our deck painted and it looks so much better!!  I haven't had a chance to get any pictures of it, but once I do, I'll get them posted.  Really the only thing we have left to do landscape wise this summer is put down some new mulch, which hopefully will get done by next month.  Plus, we need a little more field stone to finish up the back corner.  I just love when things finally start to come together and are close to being complete!  It's such a good feeling...