how my garden grows - and being busy

I'm sure not going to start out by showing you my pitiful vegetable garden.

This year, we only planted two tomato plants and two pepper plants ~

and they're still tiny and not bearing any fruit yet.

Instead, I'll show you my pot of herbs ~ cilantro, dill, rosemary, and thyme...

Tiger lilies that are just starting to bloom...

A potted begonia ~ the color is unbelievable...

And, how about this cool succulent planter? I won it from a local nursery!

I have this planter sitting on an old tree stump on the north side of the house.

I took this picture just a few days ago and already these pink flowers have just about doubled.

Here's a comfrey plant ~ which I fondly call The Plant From Hell! My mom was right:
 it grows like crazy. She gave me a tiny cutting last year and this thing is already a monster.

I think I'll dig it out of the spot where I have it now and plant it on the other side

of the house against the neighbor's old, ugly fence that borders our property.

Might make a good cover-up.

Speaking of ugly fences, you can see part of it in this picture.

The neighbor put this fence up before our house was even built, so it's 

over 25 years old! Part of it is even falling over and yet the neighbor does nothing.

It's such an eye-sore. I'm hoping the part that's falling over finally

collapses soon. That way, she'll either have to put it back up (at least it'll be straight!)

or she'll have to replace it.

My butterfly garden, though not in bloom yet ~

South side of our house where the dreaded fence is. I try to "pretty" the area as best as I can.

I love this old window. It's from an old house down the street. It was sitting out by

the garbage can, so I snagged it.

I can't remember the names of these delicate little flowers,

but I've always loved the combination of yellow and purple.

The vines in this planter are growing like mad!

I'd love to show you my patio area, but it's not set up right now.
We have the table and a couple of (new) chairs shoved up against the house,
as ~ surprise ~ the neighbor's mulberry tree that overhangs the patio-side
of our house is dropping mulberries like a hailstorm.
Happens every year and it drives us nuts. I sweep up a ton of mushy mulberries
every day. Walk on the patio and you get mushed mulberries (jam, anyone?)
 all over the bottom of your shoes. Even worse, the mulberries also attract flies.

We're having a party for my mom at our house next Saturday, so we'll be 

power-washing the patio and setting it up properly (and crossing our fingers

that not too many mulberries fall that day!) I'll be sure to take some pictures.

In the meantime, I've also been working on re-doing my living room with 

help from my cousin whose eye for design is incredible.

We went shopping at IKEA the other day and I bought some new stuff.

To be continued!