Everyday we're shovelin'

Ok, so maybe not everyday, but definitely this weekend.  Shovelin' and reorganizing, since my flowers were planted willy nilly, with no semblance of order.  There's a lot of stuff going on that's just not ok...

 Like these butterfly bushes, placed here temporarily over 2 years ago...and there they sat, growing larger and expanding their roots. 

Much to my dismay we found it wasn't treasure buried under the dirt, just a concrete slab, preventing us from planting flowers in ground here.  I suppose the only upside to that is that the planting possibilites are endless now that i can actually dig there.
 

 Um...i have no excuses, just that this is where i hope my veggie garden goes one day.  Look away.

A few years back we put in the black edging as a temporary solution, since the red brick flower beds were much smaller and less curvy.  But my mad planting skills are non existent, and in the flowers went, willy nilly, clumping on the left there, and then nothing from the holly bush onward.

Willy nilly again and emptiness.  It ain't pretty.

So we finally made the changes that i'd been begging for!  Huzzah, now i can stop pestering the boyfriend (about this particular topic, anyway!)

I don't know where he got this idea, but he mixed our insanely clay filled soil with sand and store bought organic garden soil in an effort to make this transplant happier.

 That's him. 

 And then we watered.  Like mad.  And like magic-see, i'm not even holding it.

And now there are hopefully 2 happy butterfly bushes lining the side of our yard.  I'm happy, i don't know if they are.

 Relocated a Russian Sage from the front bed, and planted two zucchinis in pots.

 Relocated something else over here. 

 Hostas and garage pots with begonias.  Garage still to be stuccoed. 

 Front walkway.  Spikey things and petunias.

Clearly this isn't the most gorgeous garden in all of existence, i still want to add some more Salvia and some annuals. Plus the lawn needs mowing.  And then mulch...doesn't mulch make everything prettier? Then one day a real retaining wall...but still.  Progress!

I just hope those butterfly bushes are alive when i get home or i will have one grumpy boyfriend!  Fingers crossed!!


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