Landscaping and Flowers!

What a busy summer it has been! We have been so busy that I've completely neglected the blog. Although, with so much going on I have a lot to share! Now I just need to find the time to actually post all of it! I thought I would start with our landscaping and flowers. A few weeks ago, we finally found some time over a weekend to work on the outside. Lots of weeding and trimming was needed. Afterwards we took some photos of mostly everything - who knows how long it'll stay this nice!?

Backyard at the bottom of the deck behind the garage.
All of the plants are perrenials, coming back each year!

Front of the house

SW corner of backyard

Deck off the back
Red/white are petunias and the green is a sweet potato vine.

Deck off the back
Geraniums on my new stand from Mike for my birthday!

Front door

Deck off the backPetunias and yellow marigolds in the back.

Backyard

Backyard
The hedges are ours - they line the back.
On the right, in the empty spot, if you look closely there is a peonia starting.

Unfortunately, after I took these pictures, that night we were hit with a storm and my potted plants on the deck got a beating. The petunias in the white pots are now pretty weak and many of the stems were broken off, same with the geraniums. Bummer! At least I have these pictures!