No Pain, No Flowers

I finally found a day where I could be outside and tend to my badly overgrown flower beds. I didn't really do much with them last summer (someone else got to them first) and as a result some things like mint and creeping phlox had just gone wild. Not to mention the dandelions and the makings of small maple trees that were in and around and through all the bushes. So I went to Canadian Tire and picked up some lovely flowers to plant, got out the shovel and the watering cans, the dirt and manure, blood and bone meal and dug up the entire thing!

I learned a few things a long the way ... shovelling is back breaking work ... flip flops are not proper gardening attire ... it will rain just when you're a bit of the way through, not enough to make you quit but enough to make you very dirty!

Regardless I got dug what I wanted dug and planted what I wanted planted.

Here it is all freshly dug up ...

I planted some Cherry Red Verbena in two little planters for the porch ...

I also fed my Blue Lobelia hanging plant some plant food to keep it going strong. I really like the look of it on this iron post that has hung empty for a while. It used to hold a wooden sign that my Dad had made for my grandparents.

And so the planting began, first where the mint had once roamed free ...

I planted some white ...

And some deep rose Harmony ...

I also planted Impatiens. I think they're the perfect flower, because I am Impatient! Ha! There are light pink and dark pink intermingled. They don't all have flowers yet so you can't quite get the full effect.

And then over to the next section ...

I planted my favourite flower ever ... Gerbera Daisies!

I will have to get out and take some more photos once the sun reappears. I have a few pea plants poking out through the ground and my lilies returned despite the fact I was sure I killed them!

Now to let my muscles recover from all that hard labour! Oh wait ... I have to house clean ...

Can't believe I'm back again after all these years away

That's a line from my favourite Trisha Yearwood song "Georgia Rain". While she's talking about returning home it feels like it fits when I notice my last post was two years ago! Wow it's been a long time. Life has been busy and that hasn't left much time to blog.

Spring has begun again and I am ready for the refreshing that brings upon my soul. As new life springs from the ground all around me I feel God renewing my soul. Oh how I love when the Lord and my soul are in sync.

This year the flower beds will need an overhaul to reset the balance that was disturbed last summer. I am looking forward to planning out the places for the bulbs to come next spring once fall has started.

That's a ways off yet, though and right now I am looking forward to the peas I planted and rejoicing in the resiliency of the lilies I planted last summer that I thought for sure I had killed! Despite my lack of skill in their care they reared there green heads and are strongly growing. What a treat! I will have to post some photos of them once this rain stops!

My lavender plants are also growing strong and I hope to make use of the fragrant blossoms this year. For what I'm not yet sure.