Easter Fun

Our Easter weekend was lots of fun, and included egg hunting, planting the garden, and lots of flowers! I hope you guys had as much fun as my family did!

One of my tulips past fully bloomed

One of my pink azaleas

One of my red azaleas

Some more flowers in one of the front-yard beds

One of my light purple irises beside the koi pond

One of my dark purple irises near the mailbox

Gage's jar of grass he's growing!

Gage preparing to hunt for Easter eggs

Gage taking time to smell the roses, (er, irises!)

Found one!

Some of my new annual hanging baskes

More flowers out front

Daisies!

More flowers!

A new addition to one of the front-yard beds

My weekend fun: Springtime planting!

This past weekend had wonderful, warm and sunny weather on Saturday and Sunday, so we made a trip to our local Lowe's home improvement store and stocked up on some beautiful plants, flowers, trees and shrubs for the back yard. Our backyard and front yard is always a constant work in progress, but I love adding to the flowers and trees each year and sprucing things up, so this year will be no exception!

We picked up some gorgeous red cedar planter boxes and a matching arbor. We also picked up some white picket fencing to put around the patio in the backyard. I planted some clematis vines at the base of the arbor which should look beautiful by next year. I was also lucky to find some dahlia bulbs, flowering almond bushes, and a dwarf bing cherry tree. You can check out the rest of the snapshots I took on Photobucket by clicking here.

A new plant that I picked up for the backyard. I can't remember the name!

My new arbor over the patio walkway adjoining the backyard. I also strung up some patio lights on it.

The cherry blossoms in our front yard

Some of our daffodils in the front yard

Happy Gardening, Crystal