Grass coming in nice and flowers blooming

Been another week, but the time has really added some pretty blooms to the gardens

 poor little walkway is starting to overflow with seedlings I will be digging out to move

 my rose bush is starting to bud nicely, won't be long and it will be bursting open and they smell awesome

the upper flower strip bed behind railroad ties are even filling in so pretty and some iris have started blooming

 iris down by the road strip

 that orange azalia from West Virgina is blooming, hate to cut it out when it still blooms

 more iris and buttercups, lenten rose blooming

 white blooming shrub in center is pyracantha 

 got some purple columbine mixed with the hosta, rose bush and clematis

 such a pretty white clematis, this is one I got with my birthday gift certificate Donna if you see this, well all these clematis are, thanks!

 side yard filling in ok

 just another angle on the new strip bed, still have to find that fence to put in there

 i guess this would be the view the cat sees HAR

view out my front window - happy camper here!

Some plants in new strip flower bed

Well it's a week later and I have transplanted some shrubs into the new strip flowerbed

sorry for flash, raining so took from inside

 I have planted 2 native dogwood shrubs, transplanted some hosta and peony in the new strip bed :)

and I got to mow!!! It's raining but it was so pretty outside I wanted to share

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