Gardens are Fun! (a Nature Monday special)

So Saturday afternoon it occurred to me that it was Spring! Spring! Glorious Spring! Spring of pollen and trees and allergies and....gardens! I caught the fever, Spring fever! There it was, perfect, lurking in my own very front yard-a poor tossed-aside garden area that was covered in garbage trapped down by dead plant matter and darkening my door-way. It was ripe for the renovating, ripe for the planting. Sunday I got up, took Rick to work, and ran as fast as I could to TLC, one of our local garden centers. I bought plants, lots of them and when I got home, I got right to work!















Here's the bad news: I was in such a frenzy of buying plants and clearing out the old garden and planting them that I neglected to make mental notes of what most of the things I planted were. Oops! So this spring and summer should be an adventure for Nature Mondays here on the blog. Maybe I should make a section on the blog called 'What am I?' with pictures so that people can tell me what my plants are if they know. Hmm.

Also, our room-mate helped me clear out some sod so that I could put in the mosaic stepping stones Rick and I made awhile back. I planted some hardy path-plants that could take some abuse by being stepped on every now-and-then and put it in the corner there.















In addition and almost right on queue with the planting of the front garden, this flower began to bloom in a bush along the back fence. I am thinking that it is honeysuckle with the way that it is growing, and is possible a breed Lonicera x americana

Not much happening on the knitting front, however. Lots of starts, few finishes. Isn't that the way of Spring, though?