Before and After

This was the pond picture from a month ago.

And the one below was from two days ago.


I worked in the garden a little this weekend. I always enjoy shoving my hands in dirt. And if you are my Facebook friend, you will also know that I enjoy nature, especially having to rescue it from the pool. I didn't see Mr. Toad again, as he has since stayed out of the pool. I just don't want to go into baby bunny rescue. They usually don't make it and I'm not out there enough to catch them before they go in. Last year, I had two dead baby bunnies. One I tried to give mouth to mouth (he was still warm and soft). Don't "yuck" at me. It was a wittle baby bunny! You would have probably done the same!

Parts of my yard are low maintenance. . . Well, my goal is to have most of the yard low maintenance, but my roses will always take some TLC, though I refuse to buy hybrids since they take a lot of TLC. Anyhoo, I planted lots and lots of perennials and all I have to do is pull up the dead stuff in winter or whack them down to the ground and fertilize.

This little corner of paradise is where the air conditioning units sit, along with a pallet of bricks (don't ask). There's a hill here and grass wouldn't grow and the dirt was eroding from under the cement pads. So I suggested we just throw some plants back here. In the far back corner is a hydrangea, a variegated butterfly bush, phlox out the wazoo (3 colors--and I see some transplanting in my future), some sort to evergreen thingy, an Autumn fern and Gaillardia. Yeah, I don't do anything back here. Nutso growth!

I'm working on hubster to get rid of this little section of grass--he's starting to think my way. Maybe next year, this year we have to work on some drainage issues--the neighbor backwashes his pool into our yard. There really isn't any other place he can do it. Oh, well.

And last but not least, here is my Clematis. It's on a pyramid structure and every year it is beautiful!

Back to my gnome story!

Write on!