So, last year I was pregnant for pretty much the entire growing season. Sure I got things started in March, but as I got bigger it got harder for me to bend down and tend to the garden beds. Eventually I ended up on bed rest and nature took over. Weeds choked out native plants, dollar weeds spread, my vining plants went crazy, and things just died when the cold set in.
Well, I am feeling great now! So I decided to tackle my back yard. First of all my passion fruit completely took over my back area, covering my shed and overtaking two jasmine plants. It needed to be cut way back. Here is the result:
This is cut WAY back. I am positive it will be fine and grow back. The way it just spread and took over everything, I think it should almost be classified as invasive. So after doing that this is what I discivered:
These are jasmine plants. I thought they had died last summer. But lo and behold here they are! If you look hard you can see that each plant has a tendril curling up on the trellises. Yay! I hope they continue to grow and give us wonderful scented jasmine flowers :)
The next task was fixing our oleander. It has about 5 oak trees trying to grow right up the middle of it. Last year, it didn't have as many flowers and they died quickly. I think it was maybe because it is competing with the oaks for sunlight and water. So I went in (it's a jungle in there, the oleander is well over 15 feet tall) and trimmed the oaks WAY back and got rid of some nasty invasive vine in it. Here is the result, right next to my son's car:
That was a lot of work! After that I trimmed and pruned the rose bushes, the blueberry bush, and various other things. Here is what I got:
Yay! Now my back yard is a level playing field ready for things to grow and bloom in it :)
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