I've Been Gardening

This is what happens when you look at Pinterest too much.  You get motivated and you spend lots of money.

 Back in June, I was bitten by the gardening bug and I picked the hottest week of the year to work in my backyard digging out grass.  I must remind you that my backyard gets full afternoon sun.  With the temperatures in the high 90's I tried to get the hardest manual labor done in the mornings.

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 I manually dug out all the grass, yes, with a shovel!  I then dug the holes and planted my three rose trees.  They are a beautiful white rose called Bolero. (Shown towards the end of the post).

Next I edged, filled the flower bed with new soil and planted boxwood along the edges.  I then added Alyssum.  This brightened everything up.  I went to go buy this edging from home depot.  They've carried it forever, until now.  They no longer carried it!  I went all over the place trying to find it.  Finally, I had to take the edging from around my fountain to make the border and buy a similar and complimentary border to put around my fountain.  Luckily, it looks good.  

 I ordered the urns and pedestals from "The Enchanted Home" and had to wait 5 agonizing weeks for them to arrive.  Yesterday was the big day, it was like Christmas when I saw those boxes containing the  urns arrive.  Now, it would have been great if I had stopped here, but now I had to make my garden more uniform.  I can just tell you I have gone boxwood and alyssum crazy.  I'll show you the other side soon.

Here is my new rose, Bolero.  It has a slight pink tinge in the picture, but not all the flowers have this. 

Along my back fence, I planted all the blue green balls of ornamental grass.  I decided to go with this instead of the boxwood because I already had this border in the curved sections.  It looks really great. I'm happy with it.