My Flower Bed is Nearly Done!

For Mothers Day, I told Roman that the only thing I wanted was help getting my flower beds done. This is my favorite thing about spring - doing my flower beds! And since I have a rather large obstruction, it was a little difficult to work on all by myself! So he was happy to do this (rather than go and try to find me a "gift"). He worked all day Saturday, fixing the sprinkler heads, clearing out the old bark (from 3 years ago that I hate), and we had a lot of stucco remnants since that was done last August/September. The kids helped me weed the beds Thursday evening. Anyway, Roman cleared out the junk, raked the dirt level, fixed and added a sprinkler head, and added in some beautiful compost dirt! While he was doing it, I went over to the greenhouse and looked at everything for a good hour before I decided on my color scheme and what I wanted to use. We didn't have time Saturday night to actually plant, so we did started planting on Monday. I didn't have any time until Wednesday evening to work on it, then I ran out of daylight and only got a small portion done. So finally yesterday I determined that I was going to finish it - and I did! I'll have to take pictures in a month or so when everything has grown some.

This is the shady section where I planted pansies that will come back EVERY YEAR! I've never really LOVED pansies, but decided they were a nice hardy flower that wouldn't take much upkeep. I also planted some Vincas (white with dark pink dot in the middle), and some Dianthus.

This is my sunny section. I planted some yellow daylillies which will come back every year and are super low maintenance. I love dark red geraniums, so I had to plant some of those, and in the middle I did purple petunias. I still need to figure out something tall to put behind the purple petunias. I guess I could do more daylillies. This is the last thing I need to decide on.

Here is a picture of our home. I have a few friends who have never seen it, and asked me to post some pix. I'll have to do some of the inside another day. : )