Adding onto the front walkway strip flower bed

I love flowers! I just didn't have enough garden space for the, when we were transplanting things here from the old house, alot just got dumped into strip beds around the house to get them in so I wouldn't kill them, now that I have lived here awhile and have had some time to get used to where stuff needs to go, I found that I needed more color in the front area of the house, so I am taking that little walkway strip bed and widening it out quite a bit

 so I get the tiller out and start tilling all around the dogwood tree, and made a nice big planting area, put down some weed block cloth and started transplanting my flowers from the south side of the house to the east side, partly because we know where the water runs off the back hill and we ended up with a wet basement, so we know we need to dig a trench around that end of the house to put in drainage, so getting my plants moved before they come to dig and tear up that end

I also started a "strip" bed down by the road, it runs from the azaelia bush over to the burning bush, I have planted corkscrew willow trees, oak trees, hosta, grasses, iris, you name it, lots put in down at the road strip bed as well

got a load of mulch down finally and just look at all the flowers in this bed now

I love when a new project is complete and I can sit back and enjoy looking at everything we have accomplished here in such a short time

still live fishies in the pond

 a dear friend of mine gave me a pile of railroad ties, so the upper strip bed and the new turtle pen under the male tree have railroad ties outlining them

sweet hubby made me some rustic wood planter boxes

filled with salvia, lobelia and hmm thought I had something white in there too

 kittens are now full grown and bring me presents

and the hen house kitty Backfire is getting spoiled and so big and pretty now

Box Turtles, new kittens & Henny Penny with peeps

The box turtles, don't they just think they are hiding!

too cute, hangin out under the tarp that makes their pond!

look how fat they are, I must be over feeding them, they can't even get all the way closed up in their shells LOL

and here we have miss Henny Penny, she was a surrogate mother, she hatched out a baby guinea chick and a little banty chick, she loves them babies!

the little black banty is soo sweet!

Almost 11 months here at the new homestead, and Scooter is right at home, runs around like she owns the farm

meet some new kitties, this is Koonie

Cali

Tigger

Smokey

they are some of the most playful kittens and friendliest ever, they were a drop off over at the farmer's barn, one day we went for a walk and they tried to cross the road to follow us home, we just couldn't bear to see them get smooshed on the road, so we went back over and brought all 6 of them home with us, how sweet are they? They know they will be smothered with love here :0)