179 out of 182

The landscape design was drawn up last summer.
Our friend Debbie did a WONDERFUL job creating our garden.

We patiently waited through fall & winter to begin implementing the plan...

Let the transformation begin!

We borrowed our neighbor's Tundra & loaded up every available spot with the plants on our lengthy list. Well, we got almost all of the plants. We have 179 out of the 182 plants required for the garden plan. We are waiting for our local nursery to sell us 3 pots of Bee Balm. (The girls don't really like this photo because of their sun grins. I think that the plants are grinning, too.)

Some of the favs: Coral Bells, Liriope, Daylilies, Ajuga,
Hydrangea, Geranium, Peonies, & Hostas

Even the back seat of the pickup got loaded up!

This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago --
we only had a handful of plants in the ground at this point.

Lots o' pots!

Millie, Millie, oh, so silly, how does your garden grow? :-)

All three of the Smithlings have helped with this project, but I 

only have one photo of Millie in the garden with her daddy.

"We" still have irrigation work (Mr. Smith's specialty) to complete & lots of "barking" to do, but you can pretty much see how the finished project will look. We are amazed at how quickly things are growing. Let's just hope that California has enough water to keep these plants alive! We're now ready for butterflies & hummingbirds.

Now that you have seen these photos, you know why I have not been adding any new items to my blog this month. I'm in the garden & not at the keyboard.

Wow! It looks as if I need to get our lawn boy out there to give the turf a trim... I guess we have been too busy playing in the dirt to notice that the grass is tall!