In My Garden

This weekend we did a little bit of gardening in our yard.  We have several areas that need help and I'm very much a novice when it comes to gardening and yard work.  I wish my mom was here to be our gardening consultant since she knows a lot about plants and growing things.  We worked on one area in the front of our house today and added a few annual and perennial plants.  I liked the plants we picked, but I think we are going to end up putting a few more of them in since it was a bigger area to fill than I was imagining in my mind.  It's a start though.  Anna was our watering helper.

We get up early every day lately since Grant wakes up early and won't go back to sleep, so we decided to take advantage and make an early run to Home Depot.  We got lots of plants for a little space in the front (but as it turns out, maybe not enough).

And on to the planting.  Grant sat nicely in his stroller while we did some planting.  Scott dug everything up and did all the hard work.  Thank you Scott!

 Anna doing her watering.  She was very helpful.

And Scott helped even out the watering.  :)

And there was lots of work going on in the back yard too.  Scott got rid of a lot of weeds and plants from last year that needed to go.  And the kids enjoyed discovering all the flowering plants and flowers in our yard.  Here is our popcorn tree.  :)  It's some kind of fruit tree, but its yet to bear fruit for us so I don't know what kind exactly.  Maybe we need bees.  

Scott (with help from Matthew) also put together this picnic table we bought a few weeks ago.  It looked great!!  Hooray!!  Scott did a lot of work today in a relatively short period of time.  Thanks Scott for making our house look so nice and all your hard work!

We also planted some berries in our back yard...hoping they do well.  They are in this little strip of garden, but you can't really see them since they are just sticks right now (they are behind Anna and the flowers in this picture).  Anna and Matthew also each picked a little annual flower to plant and take care of.   Matthew got a yellow pansy and Anna picked a purple viola.  I like the funny face Anna is making here!  Anna told me her flower was a girl and after we transplanted and fed her (watered the plant).  Anna said her flower, Viola, needed to take a nap and she put her out in the garden for nap time.  She will focus her maternal energy at anything that needs to be cared for.  Maybe she can help me take care of some of these plants!