~a stroll through the yard ~garden tour~

come see...

Behind our house and backyard...growing effortlessly throughout our neighbors trees...the most gorgeous wisteria...

Each year it's display gets more showy... I can see this from my kitchen window and it is breathtaking...





Easter Sunday turned out to be one gorgeous day. Beatiful sunshine all day and temps in the 80's ~ it really felt more like the fourth of July. We actually ate our Easter dinner on the patio~ that had to be a first! I decided to spend the day outside...planting pots and window boxes...

I have this blue/white theme going on...blue lobelia's are one of my favorites you'll notice.
Two of these pots on the patio are planted with them as well as white star zinnia's. It wasn't until I finished them when I read the little plastic insert from the greenhouse... it read 'plant 18" apart'..ooops. We'll see what happens~ my white marigolds (which I started from seed and are only a few inches high right now) might be replacing them....that's the fun of gardening:)

Out front, this is the side yard... I painted my window boxes black and planted them with white geramiums, creeping jenny and yes, more blue lobelias. This is where I'm contemplating doing a little formal english garden~perhaps a knot garden... you might remember last year my son took down a tree from here, now I have plenty of sun to play with....just not sure if I want to take on such a big project when there's still the vegetable garden to plant.
How about that chippy white paint on this 100 year old house?



I also planted a white rose on the side of the porch, can't wait to see it grow and bloom ~ then to have the aroma while sitting on the porch.








Onto to the urns....

each year they get something different...this year I decided to make them 'busy' ~ six different plant varieties in each. I'm anxious to see how they do. The sweet gentleman that owns the nursery helped me pick these out...I think he was a little glad to see me go when we finally finished walking around all his greenhouses and trying different plants together~ but I think it was worth it....each urn holds wave petunias in pale yellow, white salvias for the centers, trailing blue lobelias, a straw flower in a deeper yellow, white allysum, and a few trailing dichondra called 'silver falls'. I love the way they look already so it can only get better right?

That's a great start for me this year~ thanks to the weather I'm ahead of the game as far as gardening goes...next up is the vegetable garden and I can't wait!!

Linking up with Pam of Sidewalk Shoes for Garden Tuesday!