We Have Green Thumbs

Jon and I planted our front garden this weekend. I am proud to say that we got it done under budget and in the time frame we wanted. It was a little overwhelming, but with the help of my Aunt and the nice lady at the nursery we got it all figured out. We bought a Weeping White Spruce, a Dwarf Dog Wood, two Blue Star Juniper’s, Fountain Grass, three Mum’s, and about 150 bulbs. Surprisingly we were able to fit all of this, including the two bags of compost soil and six bags of mulch, in our car! It was a forest on wheels.

We had to finish removing the root ball from the ugly spider bush that was there when we bought the house, and re-grade the area before we could start on our own landscape design.

Things you find when you redo 50+ year old landscaping:
1. HORSE (ok, so it was a little toy figurine, but still a horse)
2. Spoon
3. Bullet (Yes, a real bullet- Jon thinks it is for a revolver)
4. Piece of a chain link
5. Ball of yarn
6. Glass
7. Sock
8. Wonder Bread Bag with plastic tie
9. Peanut Shells
10. Concrete
11. Brick Pieces
The cats were very excited to be out all day on Saturday and Sunday. They would check in every now and then to see how the new jungle was coming along. We let Stella hang out in the front yard with us on her long leash. She did a very good job as “Middle Management”.

Overall I am very pleased with how it turned out. I hope that all of our bulbs make it through the winter- it will be so pretty in the spring if they do. It was nice to spend time with Jon doing a project together. I feel like that our time together is rarer than it used to be, and it is not very often that it is just the two of us working on the same project at home.



(The little sticks are where the bulbs are planted)