Flowing foliage

While we are waiting for our garden beds to grow and fill our rumbling bellies, our flowers are blooming like crazy!

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The first year we moved in, I had no idea what I was doing and pretty much killed the large rose bushes that were here and we dug them out.  Then last fall I decided we needed roses again.  I’m happy these are doing so well!  I’m trying a more hands-off approach this time around.  Just watering and dead-heading.  Not really pruning or anything.

Climbing roses
Climbing roses

We originally tried to dig out all the climbing roses because they were just getting out of hand, but they grew back the next year.  They are tenacious!  I really like these lighter pink variety as opposed to the darker red behind them.  I like the flower heads better on these one, they seem more full.  I don’t think we’ll try to tear them out again.  If nothing else, they’re a deterent to someone trying to break into the house via these windows.

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One of the other new rose bushes we bought.  I love the delicate pink color!

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Our lavender is sprigging out
Our lavender is sprigging out

Jesse and I really like lavender.  I think we have…6? or maybe 7 plants around the yard.  Ezra likes to munch on the lavender as well as look at it.  I can tell if he’s been outside (apart from the dirt around his mouth) when I come home from work because his kisses are lavender scented.  Anyone else’s babe still shovelling in the dirt?  He’s getting better, but at 20 months, I thought he’d be getting over sticking random stuff in his mouth.  Ezra is our first babe, though, so maybe I’m expecting too much too soon.

Speaking of too much, too soon, Jesse would like Ez to start potty training.  I had to tell Jesse that we probably still have a good year of diapers ahead of us.

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Jesse loves wildflowers.  He has scattered a variety of wildflower seeds all around the yard.

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I like this rose bush because it’s hardy.  It’s just a wee thing, but it’s survived the last three years or so on its own, just hanging out in a corner by the fence.  We think it gets some water from the neighbors when they are watering their yard, so maybe that’s why it hasn’t kicked the bucket.

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Some of our DIY raised garden beds
Some of our DIY raised garden beds

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Baby lettuce head
Baby lettuce head

Now, I realize we have un-composted rabbit poo in our garden beds, but I figured even un-broken-down rabbit poo was better than nothing.  This fall and next year we will probably work it into the soil, but for now this is what we have to work with.

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Part of our strawberry bed, with some chives seeding themselves
Part of our strawberry bed, with some chives seeding themselves
More strawberries, with a bunch of tomato plants
More strawberries, with a bunch of tomato plants

These tomato plants are completely seeded from last year.  We didn’t do a great job of picking up fallen fruit, so there were probably hundreds of seeds there are one time, and now we have a great many plants sprouted.

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Our dwarf lemon tree is producing some fruit.

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Our nod to pest control, marigolds.

Half of our rodent-removal team, Jojo
Half of our rodent-removal team, Jojo
The other half of the team, Mister
The other half of the team, Mister

The man who makes all this possible, Jesse
The man who makes all this possible, Jesse


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