Hooray Garden!

The weather held up....sort of. It rained intermittently throughout the planting, but nothing major thank goodness just a little drizzle here and there. It actually turned out to be a great day to do some gardening since it was over cast and the temperature was very comfortable. Neal's parents came down about noon to help us get everything going. Neal and I really don't have the first idea of what to plant where and what will survive and thrive so we rely on Martha, our personal landscaper, to make those decisions for us! Mark stayed behind to listen out for Sophie while she napped and Martha, Neal and myself headed off to Lowe's to pick out what we needed to beautify the front garden. About an hour and a half later we arrived home with an assortment of beautiful plants, some compost and mulch and got down to it. Luckily our neighbor let us borrow his tiller so that cut down on a lot of time spent hand tilling in the compost! Sophie was such a big helper she was digging and raking alongside the big guys! She was having so much fun and she was so excited to have her Papa and Gigi there too. The garden beds turned out really beautiful, I am so excited to have some rose bushes back, we had a rose bush at our old house and I absolutely adored it and now I have 3!!! We were even able to transplant 4 of my lantana that started sprouting up from last summer, hopefully they will take and thrive like crazy as they did last year! What a major transformation from what the garden used to look like , I can't wait to watch it all grow!

Thank you Mark and Martha for EVERYTHING, especially ALL the hard work you guys put in, hope you are not too sore today!!

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Before

After

Looking for her cricket friend.

It is difficult to plant with a monkey on your back!

Martha laying out where the plants need to go.