Happy Spring!

Yes, I've been neglecting the blog. Fear not, Spring is here and we're busy at work in the garden again. We hit the BBG Plant Sale two weeks ago. Luckily, I got everything I wanted, except a funky hosta. Nothing new to be had. I did get yet another hellebore for under the dogwood, a neat fern, an oak leaf hydrangea, some annuals, and Tim got a Spanish broom which has a cool spare structure to it. It also needs full sun, which is in short suppply around here. I'll post pics once we've settled everyone in their place. The pics below are from last summer when Tim sodded the back lawn and put a sprinkler system in. He's handy to have around for things like that.

Here, the soil has been all tossed and fluffed.

Now Tim smoothed the soil and trenched out where the sprinkler hose goes.

And here's our lovely sod. Or there was our lovely sod. It hasn't come back as lush this spring, but it's still better than what it was.

Here's a shot late in the afternoon-you can see why grass is a challenge with so much shade back here.

So far, all our plants have come back nicely. I've rearranged a few-I had some mums in the window boxes last fall that came back, so I moved them to the side yard in front of the lavender. The lilac had lots of blooms (on the sunny side) now that it's in a sunnier locale, the wisteria and azalea were fabulous.. I'll have to go around the house and snap pics of everything in bloom now. That's for next time. Stay tuned!