We are blessed with one of the best views in the entire Annapolis Valley, although we pay for it in the winter with the highest snowfall in the Annapolis Valley, and I just wanted to share it with you. These pictures can not truly show you the feel you get when looking at this in real life, but they do capture the image well enough.
Here's looking down the mountain from our side yard.
These are an amazing sunset from last week. I can see this from my dining room table every night.
GARDENING AT OUR HOUSE
Now just because you want to do something doesn't mean you can do something. I am the worst at saying, "Oh yeah you just do this then that and it's all done. Too easy!" I have watched my mother garden for years, how hard can it be? A gift card from Christmas and away Jen and I went to get stuff for the lawn. Have I ever done any of the projects I was about to do? Absolutely not. Did I watch a how to video or read a book on how to do them? Why! I had a shovel, a wheel barrow and no rain. What more do I need other than a trip to the local Garden Center. Here's what I wanted to get done...
1/. fill the holes left in my lawn by the snow plow.
2/. put red ceder mulch by the rose bush.
3/. transplant 3 yucca plants into center garden
4/. take out yellow leafy plant from center garden and put by bird bath with other yellow leafy plant.
5/. put red ceder mulch on center garden
6/. dig up and transplant rhododendron to better place to grow.
7/. clean up and tidy up around the yard.
How long could this take? An hour, hour and a half? I'm in!
Here's our beautiful rose bush! Now the bush was always there, and I should preface this entire thing by saying that when we bought this house, Hope Waylen, the previous owner had done an amazing job on the gardens and lawns. What I did was dig up the grass around the bush and use that sod for filling in the spots that the snow plow dug up this year. This whole project took about 3 hours on my own, Jen helped for about 20 minutes and got bored!
Now just because you want to do something doesn't mean you can do something. I am the worst at saying, "Oh yeah you just do this then that and it's all done. Too easy!" I have watched my mother garden for years, how hard can it be? A gift card from Christmas and away Jen and I went to get stuff for the lawn. Have I ever done any of the projects I was about to do? Absolutely not. Did I watch a how to video or read a book on how to do them? Why! I had a shovel, a wheel barrow and no rain. What more do I need other than a trip to the local Garden Center. Here's what I wanted to get done...
1/. fill the holes left in my lawn by the snow plow.
2/. put red ceder mulch by the rose bush.
3/. transplant 3 yucca plants into center garden
4/. take out yellow leafy plant from center garden and put by bird bath with other yellow leafy plant.
5/. put red ceder mulch on center garden
6/. dig up and transplant rhododendron to better place to grow.
7/. clean up and tidy up around the yard.
How long could this take? An hour, hour and a half? I'm in!
Here's our beautiful rose bush! Now the bush was always there, and I should preface this entire thing by saying that when we bought this house, Hope Waylen, the previous owner had done an amazing job on the gardens and lawns. What I did was dig up the grass around the bush and use that sod for filling in the spots that the snow plow dug up this year. This whole project took about 3 hours on my own, Jen helped for about 20 minutes and got bored!
Once again the bird bath and the little yellow leafy plant were already there, I just dug up the bigger yellow leafy plant and transplanted it with the other one. This project took about a half an hour.
I had to rescue this little rhododendron from the weeds around it. I had to cut it free, dig it up and transplant it in a spot that will let it grow to be big and strong like the other 2 we have on the lawn. This took about 45 minutes to do.
This was the all day project here. I took the yellow leafy plant out of here making way for the 3 yucca plants that I dug up from another garden I closed this year. I have 2 more bush type plants I offered to my aunt who just moved here from Calgary, but if she don't taken em this week I'm just gonna put them by the road to give away. Then Jen did help me put this wonderful ceder mulch on the center garden to make it stand out.
So after a whole day affair on the front lawn, I hope it looks better!
-Jerry
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