Yard Progress

I have been making slow progress in the yard this summer - the first bed of hastas is growing, one more bed of hastas is put in and two of the new plants even sent up flower shoots!

My asiatic lilies finished blooming about 10 days ago and now (finally!) my beautiful stargazer lilies are blooming!

The morning glories are sending up their long shoots and a few deep purple blossoms have ventured out. I transplanted some of the stems to the other side of the porch steps so we'll eventually we'll have railings covered with green vines and delicate flowers.

I love how the garden changes from month to month. The picture on the left is in late June, with the astilbe and asiatics. The picture on the right was today, with the morning glories and oriental Stargazers.

Luke's parents are visiting right now and have been helping in the yard as well (yay! :)). Luke and his dad cut down one of the huge pine trees on the side and are thinning out the others - now we just have to get the old red shed torn down and we'll have a lovely little picnic spot!

Luke's mom has been tearing out the weeds next to the porch and has cleared a large area which I plan to use as an herb garden. So far she has found several large pieces of slate and one old brown glass bottle, still completely intact, in her digging.

The next steps are to add some small flowers to the hasta beds, start planting the herb garden and mulch all the beds to cut down on the weeds. By fall I'm hoping to have cleared out the red shed, put in one more hasta bed, made a good start on the herb garden and lined as many beds as possible with stones (gathered from the paddocks at the barn!). We'll see how far we get... :)