More yard work!

Been busy in the yard! This is the view in the back of our detached garage. The constant rain has made everything green!

View in other direction, showing my herb bed on the left in the background. A few Maple trees near the pergola

A corner of the yard with new Leyland Cypress planted. The left side shows an Oak Willow, on the ground my Hostas coming back up. And to the right are my Magnolia bush and tree.

Our Dwarf Fig tree (about 5 years old) is full of figs already! (needs mulch!)

My herb bed

My River Birch tree, view to the back of the yard

View of back of garage. My butterfly bush and Rosemary plant

View from my dining room window looking over the lower deck into yard in front of detached garage, you can see my banana plants starting to come up. The back yard that used to be used for our vegetable garden, (gate is open) is now growing grass. You can see the pergola too. It had just rained a lot outside and I love the look of the dark greens that a wet yard has.

Backyard gardening

We have had these banana palms for few years now. We cut them back every fall and cover them with mulch. They come back in the Spring. This picture was taken in June. We got a bud and baby bananas from it a couple of years ago when we had an especially warm long Spring and late Fall.

Our adopted Huskies love the shade from the Palm tree, they also eat the tender tips of the fronds! When we are not looking, some of the baby banana palms dissapear!




We have a gate in our back yard that goes into our secluded vegetable garden. I put a hayrack planter on the fence, one on each side of the gate.

Magnolia that was planted last year

Plum tree

Back of detached garage showing our River Birch Butterfly bush, wax myrtle bushes and my raised herb bed that my husband made for me.