It is officially that time of year when the majority of my time is spent outdoors. We had some really high temps last week, not normal for this time of year, but we Canadians took it in stride and soaked up all that sun.
We built our house 9 years ago and every year I hint to my husband I'd like US to plant a hedge on the east side of our house. We have a walkway there, snow blows in really bad in the winter and the walkway is useless. The hedge would look really good and hide the walkway from the dirt "parking" area for the quads, tractor, old Ford and any other "big boy" toys we may acquire in the future.
I finally took initiative and while shopping for bedding plants I bought all the Cotoneaster shrubs in stock at our local Superstore. I came home and started digging. My husband helped out on his days off and voila..... our soon-to-be hedge is finally planted.
My 5 year old daughter helped plant the garden, potatoes and bedding plants. It took about 3 days to get it all done. I am amazed at my daughter's focus. The boys would help for a minute then off they'd go spraying each other with the hose or wrestling on the trampoline. Our oldest was home two days due to a teacher's strike in our province. But that is a whole other discussion!
I love seeing the flowers bloom, the garden grow and all that comes with summer. Okay maybe I do not like the dandelion situation that much but I can deal with it by looking at the pretty flowers instead.
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3 comments:
Very Nice!!! The hedge area will look so nice. Love the container gardens so cute.
Flowers are one of my favorite things so I plants tons of them in pots every year.
I could do without the dandelions too...
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