Wednesday, July 9, 2014

To Plant a Garden is to Believe in the future

Apparently my mom feels our future is going to be vast!!!  I bought a few plants, less than 10, knowing that things were going to be a bit crazy when we first bought the house.  When everything that happened with the retaining wall went down I essentially gave up all hope of a nice tiered flower bed and that raised galvanized vegetable garden was no longer in the plans for the next...ohhhhh three years.

Enter my Mom...my green thumb, bulb salivating, can make any plant come back to life Mom.  She went bonkers in the "clearance" aisle at Wal-mart, Lowe's, Home depot...anywhere selling plants.  Lets not add what my neighbors, (million and 5 year old Mrs. Faye who still mows her own lawn and Garden enthusiast Mrs. Trudy who knows every tree/plant I have on my property) giving her different types to plant.  She got tools, a back brace and put her music on and went to town.   Ohhhh....she had me get a TRUCK BED full of mulch (yes only $5 but still...truck bed) to cover said plants or use to kill other areas "for future planting"

All that being said...holy hell it looks amazing.  I'm pretty sure she is going to take up target practice to get the deer and/or raccoon in the neighborhood but she did any amazing job. I may not have the best looking exterior house but my Mom sure does have impressive gardens.



Even Vivi is involved in it!