Happy Mom's Day!!!

Boy do we know how to celebrate!!!
We fill up on homemade poptarts (pretty yummy!) and then put our guest of honor to work...


Debby visited us and helped us spruce up our garden. Speaking of which --- it's really starting to look somewhat like a garden!!! We're SO excited! Feel free to visit anytime.


Wedding Tree - Year 2. Need we say more? The crows didn't actually manage to kill it last fall, as we had fear. Speaking of the crows. They are doing nicely. They're quite a home and losing any fear they ever had of us. They say, 'caaaaaw, caaaaas....'.


Mom gave us this big orange container for our wedding. We love it although we've not found the perfect set of plantings for it yet. While I was at work, Aaron moved it to where the "man door" used to be. It's great visual interest. Right now it resembles a giant chia pet, but we plan to plant something tall in it -- then we'll have it all: thriller, spiller, and filler.

We call this "Fern Alley" an it really has to be attributed to Aaron's artistic eye. Everything here is an official shade lover. This is the best part of our garden... actually it's the side of the house where you really have to walk out of your way to look, but it's great. Someday it'll be a lovely passage way between the front and back yards. Ahhhh...."someday".


This is a "dalieta", Aaron's new favorite flower. They are mini-dahlias and every bit as gorgeous. I hope we can have an entire dalieta garden this year. This is the first one we found... on Mother's Day when we went to not one but TWO nurseries.


There are some "tuberous begonias" that we bought last year. They are perennial and grow really big and beautiful...flowing over the hanging basket. The trick is they like to be dry (which reminds me they are sitting in a rainstorm as I type...)and they don't freeze. In the craziness with the studio remodel they begonias wintered over in the middle of the yard with the occasional flake of snow hitting them. We were distracted and there that sat. I threatened to toss them out this spring but never got around to it. Then one night I came home and Aaron said, "I have a surprise for you!" and there they were...begonias!!! We'll see how they do. I think I'll go save them from the storm.