A rewarding day

Saturday - family day! Yeah! I love these days.

Merv and the boys went to Lowe's while the girls and I went to see friends. My friend is blessed with a husband who has a talent for gardening and landscaping. I love to see others' creativity in gardening whether it be their own ideas or not. The joy of having gardening friends is to share plants and ideas and we did both. While we talked and dug and traded, the girls were off with the camera capturing their beautiful flowers along with the doggy who was curious to look in the potting shed window when Allison peeped in. Is this dog a copycat or what?

 

Originally, our friends had planned to get rid of this until they were encouraged to keep this cute little potting shed. I just love it here.

 

I wonder what tales this little car could tell us if it could talk, but it's final resting place is with the flowers, that's for certain.

This brick was just layed last year to create a lovely outdoor patio.

Then we came back to my measly garden. I am glad for the convenience of having lettuce, radishes, and onions close to the house.

My dear husband raked this area so we could seed grass after I had transplanted most of the flowers up to the hill. The soil is wonderful here with all the composting we used the past couple of years.

 

A perfect job on this windy day for this wonderful helper.

A lot of pulling and shoving and tilling.....

.....and this was the new shade garden plot by day's end. That thought came into being just a couple days ago. I tend to plan as I'm working hands on in the garden. I wanted a shade garden, but wasn't sure where that would be. This turned out to be the perfect place under the pine tree.

And this was the bright picture to end of the week.

Now this probably doesn't look like much now to those of you who aren't gardners. But if you can just dream with me, imagine how this will look in several years. We'll have some tall bushes: lilac, burning bush, rose of sharon, butterfly bush, and a couple trees to add some height. Then in the spring, we'll have a row of irises along the winding garden path. Come summer, hopefully they'll be a moon vine climbing the ladder. Between the flower and vegetable garden will be a stone wall with a trellis as an entrance. That arbor will be full of autumn clematis. Can't you visualize to the far left three big bushes - I've got to get the names of those, next three peonies, the compost tumbler, then three yellow forsythias, and last, the compost bin?
I'll leave you to imagine until I post more things about the garden.