Yard Enhancement - spring is here!

[Digitizingqueen]

I put out my goldfinch feeder 2 weeks ago and finally on sunday saw my first gold finch I am hoping she tells all her friends I had hundreds at my old house which is only a mile away form my new house....

I also got the pole put in for a regular bird feeder but it got slightly bent which I am trying to fix now...

I picked up 4 perinials form my church plant sale, planing on planting maybe sunday

plated 3 trees in my back yard which are starting to look really nice (getting leaves and such) they are small but seem to be doing well...

I have thre azalia bushes I need to plant this week as well, still trying to deside where to plant them, I am hoping my yard will be a very enjoyable place to hang out in a couple of years with the trees.

Also a friend is supposed ot give me soem more flowers to plant in the front which will really add something to my house.

My bird feeders are really one of my passions They are very entertainign to watch.

[sammie]

Yes the time has come and one can smell the new cut grass, while watching the guys sweat as they toil to mow the lawn, the light breeze wafting the smell into my home, oh how good it feels to know summer is near and flowers will thrive.

Sending their scent to my little hive, oh how wonderful to be alive.
you have a lot of work to do, but i bet your home looks like a picture on a chololate box.
mmmmm
Sammie xXx

[Digitizingqueen]

Well the goldfinch spread the word I had 6 early yesterday and several visit throuhout the day, my dad came over and finally helped mne get the other pole fixed and we put up my new birdfeeder, had a bluebird visit last night so time will tell which feathered friends will visit regularly....

I planted the azelias, they are in the back close to one of the trees but not to close, far enough away from the patio so we wont have a bee problem.....

the weather has been perfect for sitting outside latly just mild and warm... a bit windy but not to bad....

as for the guys mowing thier lawns well havent see any hotties yet.... we shall see ;-)

[sammie]

lol ha ha now i never said the guys were hot, although the steam was coming off them, they were the wrong side of 30 for me,

[Digitizingqueen]

well heres hoping for soem of those this spring/ summer ;-) maybe at the pool..... hmmmm there is this one scary guy who mows his lawn with no shirt in my neighborhood, this man should not run around wiht out a shirt very scary .....

[sammie]

We have allotments to the rear of my house and the old guys are all out, plodding away and planting veg to eat later in the year, it is still a popular pass time from the war days i guess.
But it is nice to see the land used for pleasures like that.

[Digitizingqueen]

In the South A lot of people plant vegtables in the summer, next year i am goign to try my hand a tomatos becuase I love tomatos.... I also grow fresh herbs which makes cooking all the better. The other thing that will be startign up soon is Grilling out, I need to clean my grill and I am there too.... it is already close to 90 degrees F in North carolina... and we also have high humidity....

[sammie]

Well it's hot here today, I have all the windows open wide and i am doing my washing as the wind is good. I'll be in Denmark soon for a month or two, and I'll work on my tan while there relaxing. :)

[jcme]

This past weekend was beautiful out. :sunny: Everyone was out mowing their lawn on Saturday for the first time so my allergies went bonkers and I couldn't do much outside work. :(

Sunday, I bought some herb plants. Although I have a brown thumb I tried growing some last year and all but one provided more than enough herbs for all summer. It was so nice to be able to just pick some herb from outside as needed. I usually would use dry since my fresh usually went bad before I got to use them and fresh are so much better.

I usually don't manage to kill impatients, so in a couple weeks I'll hit one of the local school districts fundraising flower sales to get some hanging baskets.

Take care

[shannanigans]

I have a really awesome stone wall in my backyard. I'm going to plant wild flowers with my nephew in the wall. I think it will look really cool. :)

[Digitizingqueen]

well I need to get to the hardware store this weekdn and change out my pin needle s for soemthign prettier (Pine needles look cheap to me) and plant my perinials plus i got a 25 dollar housewarming gift to buy a plant for the yard... maybe put soem crocus out or somthign in the back... love flowers.... maybe a rose bush I havent had one of those in a while.... my grass is coming in well I need a mower probaly in about a month... I do love my house and yard....

[Digitizingqueen]

Couple of really cool things, I had a bluebird come to my Bird feeder yesterday, been attracting more and more birds...

Finally got out an redid my front walk garden area, got some lilys and soem other really pretty flowers that like lots of sun, dug up all the ugly plants the hoem builder/landscaped.... put out bark... it looks so much better and was a very enjoyable task... I do love working in my yard!....fresh air, dirt, just very enjoyable...

[shannanigans]

I stuck a little feeder on the outside of one of the windows in my apartment. I was getting a good amount of cute little chickadees until my kitten started to pounce at the glass! It was pretty cute to watch.

I just put my herb garden windowbox outside this morning. I love it when it gets warm out!

[Digitizingqueen]

Ok update, My Lilys bloomed and someone came and cut one ot the pretty ones (it is closest to the door) the rudeness of people, well the gold finches are really coming now saw about 30 this weekend, and I have a good popultion of house finches which a very vivid redish purple.... havent seen the blue birds much or the cardinals but they are coming intermittanly, need to go pick soem bird food (Probably next Sunday) not this as it is Fathers day. I got the cushions for my patio furniture scrubed and put out and we have had rain off and on all week of course... :cool: now I need to break down the grill and work on it... maybe work on that late on Saturday.... have so much to do I had to make a to do list....

We are glad for the rain as we were in an almost drought state in our city.... which means I can water the lawn and flowers...

One of my trees died so I am trying to decide if I want to plant another or just dig it up and plant soemthing else.... :( need to dig it up first to see if it looks really bad... the other two look great... as well as the flowers... I am really enjoying my yard!

[shannanigans]

i love to garden when i have the time :rolleyes:

[YellowRoseTex]

Working in the yard is so much fun. We put in a new pond several months ago and now we've started another project. A dry rock bed with a bridge and a flagstone walkway. We have many flowers in the gardens surrounding the ponds and along the fence. It is starting to get hot and humid here so we do have to make sure the sprinklers do their thing. I am disappointed that I have not seen any hummingbirds drinking from our feeder yet.

[Digitizingqueen]

I am so excited, My Aunt gave me some more plants for my yard, I also went and visited her garden which is absolutly gorgeous, she is goign to give me a couple of more later this month that are not ready yet... one being an IRIS which I just love!...well now after planting this afternoon I relized my yard needs to be mowed very badly so off to the hardware for a lawn mower next weekend....