All in a days work

My blog a few weeks ago talked about my plans for spring gardens. Well I have already started some of that! My husband decided to help me out in the front yard as a birthday gift (thanks honey!) so we got cracking on fixing things up.

First things first, the walkway leading to the house needed to be remulched and have some more plants put in it, since the pentas are annuals and were dead. Chris really likes gardenias so I decided to buy three gardenia bushes from a local nursery and place those there, along with a pretty cool weather annual (alyssum), and some solar lights we got on sale at Home depot. Here is how it turned out:

Next we remulched the entire front bed with the lemon lime bushes, and my white rose bush. Those are pretty good so I just trimmed those. Here is the white rose bush, with some poinsettias in the background:

Also at the local nursery I indulged and got 2 lavender pots, 2 rosemary pots, 4 different colored pansy plants,  4 jalapeno pepper plants, 4 sweet pepper plants, 4 beefsteak tomato plants, 4 unknown type tomato plants, 4 zucinni plants, and 4 summer squash plants. Here are some of them:

These are hung on PVC piping. The one in the front has my pansy plants. The one in the back is holding the rosemary and lavender. It's a great way to brighten a front porch, and the herbs are within reach of my door if I need to cook with them!

The back container has my tomato plants, plus one of the squash plants. The front has the sweet peppers and one of the jalapenos. I am keeping them in containers until I am certain it will not freeze (maybe mid February) then I will transfer them to my back yard in the raised beds. I can't wait!

I go back to work next Monday (boo!) but I will try to keep up with blogging and updating you all on whats going on outside my door. Until next time friends :)