I got a Clematis!

I did it, I went and got my purple Clematis!  It is called H.F. Young. I don't think it will bloom this year, but the second year it should, I will be so impatient waiting for the blooms!

H. F. Young Clematis

I know exactly where I'm going to put it! I just have to get a trellis for it.  I hear they are easy to train to a trellis.  It should be beautiful Can't wait!

I've been busy!

I know it's still technically "Winter" but Spring is right around the corner!  I can't wait because I have BIG plans for my yard!

I went to Walmart the other day and I found seeds that I'm going to try and sow indoors.  My first time ever!

I also purchased a daylily named Final Touch, actually, I got three of them and they are reblooming!  I'm so excited to plant these. I love the dark pink with the lime-colored throat.  More later......

Final Touch

Well, it's been a while since I've posted ( like a year) but we have been so busy with other things that I didn't get a chance to work on my yard.  As a matter of fact, my yard looked hideous this year!

I plan to remedy that this year.  We have to finish the posts that we put up this fall and I did decide to put up a railing as well. Everything costs money so I need to watch the pennies and choose the most important things to do.  I know I want to plant some Begonias this year not sure if I want to put them in a pot or if I will put them in the ground my only peeve is I hate to dig things up.  I am more of a perennial girl. There are so many things I want to do this Spring hope I can afford to do them all!!!

I know one place that is getting overhauled for sure is the back of my garage!  I want to plant Cat mint back there but my hubby has got to take the "tail" off the back of the garage before any of that happens. I for sure want to plant a couple of reblooming daylilies.  I also want to plant a hydrangea or two. I guess I will have to wait for Spring!

This is the tail that the garage has to lose so I can plant my Catmint there!

Fall Is Here

I can't believe that fall is here and winter is on its way.  Here in Iowa, it was a very soggy summer and it looks like it's going to be a soggy fall as well.  All of my beautiful impatiens all gone, it's so sad.  My hostas look awful and I didn't get the rock down on the one side of the house.  Oh well, better luck next year!

I did make a decision for next spring, I'm going to start some of my flowers inside and transplant them as plants.  It worked really well for Star Gazer lilies.  I pretty much have a blank slate so it will be fun to figure out what I want to plant and where I'm going to plant them!

Fall Is Coming

I do like Fall but it's kind of sad to see Summer go.  I know I've got lots to do over the winter planning where things are going to get planted and what to plan where etc.  I think I'm going to try seeds this year and grow them indoors and move them outside as plants.  This spring I planted my Stargazer Lilies indoors then moved them outside in May.  I have to say it worked out pretty well since the year before I planted some Lilies and they didn't ever come up but this year they did.  I love surprises like that in the garden!

My Blank Corner

I'm not really sure what I want to do with this blank corner.  The door in the picture is to our bedroom. I don't want to put anything too big there especially since the air conditioner is right there. I was thinking maybe a Hydrangea, I would have to keep it trimmed up.  I also thought about Daylilies. I am obsessed with daylilies and hydrangeas are there really any other kind of plants out there???  It's kind of nice to have a blank slate in most of my yard both back and front!  I have all of winter to decide what goes where.  For all the plans swirling in my head, I don't think I'll be able to afford to do everything right away.  That is a good thing I need to go slow and plan out each area so it's perfect.  I want to fence the backyard for sure, that won't happen until next year or the year after. We have four backyards and nobody knows where their property lines are including us!  I should have them come out just so I know what was ours because there is a huge tree and some other kind of bush/tree things by our shed (I hate our shed I want a new one!).  See why it's going to be expensive to landscape?? I also want to put a berm in that is kidney shape just to fill it with flowers that will attract butterflies and hummingbirds.  So much to do so little time and money!

Rocks That Change Color!

When I put down the river rock that I had gotten at Menard's the other day it looked like all brown rocks.  My brother came over and commented about the boring brown rocks that I had purchased.  He kind of hurt my feelings.....just a little bit.  I don't really care what other people including family thinks of me or the things I chose to buy.  Anyway....we had a torrential downpour last Friday and I noticed my boring brown rocks were no longer brown.....they magically changed to colored rocks!!!  I felt like an idiot I didn't realize that the river rock came that way!  One of the girls at work had done the same thing and was disappointed because she thought she was getting the colored rock as well!  So I guess it's not just me that didn't know that the rocks come dirty and you need to rinse them! Won't be making that mistake again! I am a happy camper with my colored rocks!