On Gardening

When Stu and I first bought our home, our backyard was bare and filled with holes, a few really old fruit trees and random patches where grass simply wouldn't grow. In our minds, however, we always envisioned a garden full of beautiful flowers and a good-sized kitchen garden. We're not quite there yet, but there has been some progress.

Stu had been working hard on levelling the backyard, filling it up with literally tons of soil and sand. He also did a really good job of building a garden bed that curves around the perimeter of the backyard, framed by sandstone pavers. Yes I am so incredibly lucky that Stu is such a handy man to have around the house.

As soon as the garden bed was complete, we went to the local nursery and spent a little fortune on flowers to fill the garden with. I picked up a few pots of ranunculus.

Various pots of hydrangeas

Sweet miniature dahlias

And not pictured, we also bought pots of lavender and star jasmine for a hedge and about a dozen gardenias. I'm loving forward to everything bursting into bloom, how wonderfully perfumed would my garden be then?