Landscaping...and other gardening news

On Sunday, May 1st, we took a lovely trip to Lowe's to find a couple more things to plant.  Jason has done an incredible job of landscaping our yard and we had guys come on Saturday to mow/trim.  It looks so different from when we moved in!  Unfortunately, the yard is too big to get a single shot of, so here are a few pictures of our projects:

This is Reagan's tree that we planted when Jason returned from the MEU deployment.  It's really growing!

In honor of Mom/Mil/Grandma, Jason planted two gardenia bushes in the backyard.

Due to a mild frost, I lost my original pepper plants.  This is a jalapeno plant!

And here's a standard bell pepper plant, although the picture on the tag says it will produce red & green peppers

Showing off our handsome puppy!

One of two rows (the other side of the yard has the other row) of olive tea bushes that smell lemony and delightful - Cody and Jason worked hard to plant all these in March

Our new Redbud tree (that looked totally different when Jason and Cody planted it a month ago).  It's grown about 6-9 inches in just a short time!

So now we have 11 small bushes and 2 new trees in the backyard.  The front has the original bushes from our move-in (some which we'd like to remove and replace with something different) and our Yoshino Cherry tree.  Once we build onto the existing deck, we'll have the backyard of our dreams.  And the garden is in full swing.  Jason and I enjoyed a salad made from lettuce & radishes straight out of the yard and a few other veggies from the store.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NC Girls' Weekend

Image
Since Jason is out of town, we decided to schedule an impromptu girls weekend visit in North Carolina. It was great to see Lynsey & Colleen and their families. Jessica, the girls and I drove down Friday night and got to Lynsey's just before midnight. We didn't do much, but hang around the house and play outside on the first day. It was relaxing and fun. Brian was awesome and played with the kids while Jess, Lynsey & I did a workout in their amazing home gym. Colleen came up with the boys around lunch time on Saturday. All the kids fawned over Miles, or as they have names him, Baby My My. I think Savannah really enjoyed not being the youngest for a few days. Saturday night, we ordered pizza, ate way too much, and Grammy Betty came over. We haven't seen her in a long time and it was wonderful to chat with her again.  The next day, we woke up to some snow! We played outside again and the kids played well together which was nice for us adults. Colleen and the boys
Read more

Bath Time Fun

Image
Typically, after Jason gets home and eats dinner, he is on bath duty. It gives me 10 minutes to clean the kitchen, set up his coffee and make his lunch for the following day. One day last week though, everything was already done, so I snuck in to watch the fun. We recently got some Mr. Bubbles for Reagan and she LOVED them. She's such a cheeseball!
Read more

Bath Time: PAHM Style

Image
I've mentioned it before, but I will say it again: I love Play At Home Mom !!! This site is the best for ideas to interact with, engage, and teach your children. Reagan takes a bath almost every night. She has the typical assortment of toys (rubber boats, cups, a turtle, etc) to entertain her, but lately, she just leaves them in the bag. I decided to introduce some new things during bath time and they were a huge hit! Here are some pictures from our "adventures in bath fun." First up: BUBBLES ! It's a bit too cold to just hang out in the yard blowing bubbles, so I decided that bath time would be the perfect opportunity for a mess free bubble party! I LOVE this shot.  Secondly, (and straight from PAHM), I added: WATER BALLOONS !!! She absolutely loved when I poked a small hole in them and they became "water fountains!"
Read more