Sure I like a little cold weather, maybe even some snow fall around Christmas time. I love the crisp chill in a Fall morning. But after January is over, I'm so ready for Spring! My absolute favorite time of year is Spring. Just when you think the gloom of winter will last forever, the trees begin to bud with tiny green leaves and flowers begin to come alive. It's simply magical. God knew what He was doing when He gave us Spring to revive our spirits and remind us all things can be made anew.
Another reason why I love Spring is because I love gardening. It is one of my favorite things to do. Give me a sunny Saturday in April and the time and money to spend on buying new plants and working in my garden, and I am one content and happy woman.
This last Wednesday was really not the best day to be doing garden work. It was a blustery 40 degrees (that is cold in Texas, people!) and the wind was pretty harsh. But I had the day off, it was sunny, and Home Depot was calling to me. I had been wanting to line my flower beds in the front with sandstone to match the ones on our house for quite some time. So I hauled hubby and the 2 youngest kids with me to buy the stones. Home Depot must have known I was coming because right at the entrance were boxes and boxes of flower bulbs, seeds, and vegetable and fruit seeds as well. I immediately started thinking of the fruit and vegetable gardens I want to plant in the backyard. The hubs bought me back to my original task and we went to get the stones and more garden soil to get it all ready for the real planting later on. Of course, I still found 2 Azaleas that I wanted and 1 Tropicana rose. I had been dying for an orange rose, and what southern flower garden is complete without Azaleas??
So here is the beginning of my 2014 flower garden in the front. It looks sparse for now, but that's the beauty of Spring... It's only the beginning ;-)
It's a little hard to see and definitely hard to tell from the pic what I planted here, but there's an Autumn Moonlight azalea, a red knockout rose bush, a Tropicana rose, a pink knockout rose bush, a yellow rose, and a purple rose. And the evergreen spiral dwarf tree at the end as well. A little eclectic, but I like it that way.
Looking forward to posting new pictures when it all starts blooming!
Until next time,
God Bless!
