Front Yard Beds

 Most of our Front Yard plants have not bloomed yet. This is a long work in progress. Many of the plants going in the front are Perennials, and are either first year plants or are still quite young.

These are the gardens I am currently most excited about, mainly because of their EPIC potential for the future. Once established these plants will reseed themselves, be divided, fill out, get bigger and bigger.. and its gonna be amazin'.

For now, we have filled in with some annuals while we await the maturity of the perennials.

Starting Flowers & Herbs by Seed

Here is a Great way to do it!
1. Get some cheap plastic pots & fill with potting soil.
2. Label them with what you're planting
3. Drop as many seeds in there as you like. Cover, water, sunlight, wait.
4. Once they grow, you can carefully pry seedlings out of the loose soil & transplant them wherever you like!

New Shade Garden & Pergola

Yes! Finally, our fence & pergola have been built. Here, you can see us laying the pallet floor. Treated plywood has been attached to the tops of all of the pallets. Next, we filled it in with mulch.

 After the patio floor was filled with mulch, we tilled around the sides to remove the grass and turn the soil.

 The tilled sides were then topped with landscaping rocks.

 And then filled with shade plants! We have filled in the area mostly with perennials, but also a few annuals for extra color.

Overtime the plants will fill out/in, and eventually it will probably be an entirely perennial garden.

 Coleus

 Begonias

 Ferns

 Coleus

 Moss

Butterfly Amaryllis Blooms after 4 Years

This plant was given to me in 2009. It has moved with me 5 times and finally bloomed just last week.