Shaping up

I promised that I would show you my flowers when they are all planted, didn't I? Well, don't say that I don't deliver on my promises! lol
It was a lot of hard work and took up most of our so called vacation. But it was worth it!

This is an urn with the variegated ivy and petunias.
It's placed next to the bridge
that isgoing over our pond.
New rocks helped to brighten up this area too.

This is the view as you are walking over the bridge.
The new flowers are to the left of the bench.

This little water lily was hiding under a lilypad.
I pulled it out of the way to snap this photo.

Here are the Impatients we planted around the pond.
New mulch made the colors pop,
but I think the dark color of the mulch also
made it too hot for the delicate flowers.

Remember my gorgeous purple marine
that smelled like licorice?
Well, the sun all but dried them out!
They do still give off that fragrance though.
And they come back with a lot of water.

One day while watering these flowers
I saw someting hovering out of the corner
of my eye. Thinking it was the dragonfly
I just saw over the pond, I didn't pay it much mind...
Until I almost walked right into it.
It was a hummingbird!
The first I've seen that close and
especially in my own backyard.
I haven't even put up the feeder yet!
That was so cool!

Here are my flower boxes.
I was going to move them to the front of the deck
but the people who lived here before us
bolted the top railing right over the wire
basket that these boxes sit in!
So they are staying put unless we
decide to someday re-do the deck.


I couldn't resist taking a close up of this
gorgeous red flower.

Well, there ya have it.
My flowers are in and the weeds
are already peeking through the mulch.
Gardening work just never ends!

Take it easy out there!
TRW