The Garden

Hello, all! Here's a little something about our yard! We were so excited to see all the surprising plants sprout up this spring! After all, we bought the house in the winter and had no clue what kind of plants were there! We've even started a vegetable garden!
Here are the starters for our vegetable garden.


My friend Misha came over one day and used a sod cutter to make us a garden!
We planted tomato, bell pepper, jalepeno, sweet banana pepper, onion, carrot, lettuce and radish.

I dug up all the weeds in this empty flower bed and planted seeds for wildflowers and about 75 anemone bulbs. Also, I planted one big pompom dahlia in the corner. They should sprout and bloom in 4-6 weeks.

This crawling rose bush has about 100 yellow blooms on it now!

I love these bleeding hearts!

Here's our rickety swing.


We have 2 beds of purple irises that are so very pretty!

These day lillies will not bloom until midsummer.
I have 3 white, 4 pink and 2 deep red peony bushes. These hadn't bloomed yet when I took this pic, but they are bloomed now. I will post more pics of the bloomed bushes soon.
This is the side of the garage where there are 8 lily plants and a few ferns planted. I am going to a teacher's house to get more ferns to plant between the lillies to even it out.
I love the hydrangea bush in front of the house.
Another pretty pic of flowers!

I have pink, purple, and magenta dianthuses.
Does anyone know what kind of foliage this is?
I like these ferns so much! They are great filler!

Tulips are my favorite! These yellow ones are on the side of the house facing the neighbor's house towards the front.

Joe accidentally weed whacked this group of tulips in the front before they bloomed. Somehow he missed the bud on this pink one and it bloomed! I thought that it was a good analogy for life - the most beautiful of flowers are the ones who bloom in the face of adversity.

I am thinking about planting a bunch of pink tulips in this bedding by the porch.
The bright white allyssum looks pretty next to the orange poppies!
I would love to plant more poppies, only red!
I am not sure what these flowers are called.

This is the side of the house where our driveway is.
The views from the front.
I like those big yuccas! They now have spear-like bud things that have sprouted up which eventually will bear white blooms.
This is a peony tree, diffrent from a bush in that the blooms are hidden in the foliage.

This pic was taken right before the irises bloomed.
I have 3 rose bushes planted in circular beds in the backyard. They won't bloom until mid to late summer.
I found a robin's egg in the bed of one of the rose bushes, but it was broken. It's still there - I won't move it. It's ornamental!
Another yucca with irises!

This is the view from the back porch.

I plan to dig up the ground about a foot and a half all the way around our wishing well this fall to plant red tulips all around. I will have to remind Joe not to run over them next spring!

***More photos to come!***