When we moved into our house, our front yard was mostly pine straw and our side yard was all turf grass. Over the years, Chad has spent a lot of time and effort turning our yard into a beautiful garden where it’s a pleasant place to spend time when the weather is nice. The thoughtful selection of plants ensures that there is always something green or flowering or both throughout the year. As you might guess, springtime is my favorite season, and there is a lot happening in the garden right now.
The plants in front of the porch are going a little wild with new growth – viburnum, ferns, hydrangea, weeping redbudThe area under the cherry tree used to be dirt covered in pine straw – now it’s a mass of vegetationI can’t even remember the names of all of these plants under the cherry treeOur side yard used to be just turf grass – now there’s a variety of plants, a walking path, and a water featureView from the other directionThe kousa dogwood will bloom later this springThe Japanese maple next to the water feature – by the way, we didn’t plant the moss on the rocks, it just appearedIf you look closely, you can see little minnows in our pond, and there are little black snails on the rock in the upper right cornerOver the years, the plants have sprouted in new locations including in the middle of the pathLow-profile juniper and Mexican feather grass with cast iron plant in the backgroundBlue star creeper and some little white flowersThe irises have started to bloomAnother variety of iris at the pondKryptomeria hedge behind some stone seatsDwarf blueberry bushesLittle strawberry plants are scattered around with small berries ripeningOne of our fig treesThere’s some clover in the front yard which adds a nice texture in the spring
Finally, the oak-leaf hydrangea is just sending out buds, and I can’t wait for these to bloom over the next couple of weeks.
