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Apr 21

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Our Walkway is Complete – Wordless Wednesday

Here's our new pathway to our front door. I love it!

Our front walkway is done!! Now to add sod and add finishing touches.

Dec 30

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My Favorite Garden Memories This Year

Since this is my last Wordless Wednesday post of the year, I decided to share some of my favorite ‘gardening’ events from 2009:

New Front Door & Painted Front Porch

Planting a Ginkgo Tree

Getting My Silkie Chickens & Reed Fencing

Fresh Silkie Eggs

White Lilacs Blooming for the First Time

One More Year with Pepper (R.I.P)

Blueberries & Raspberries

Stella Bella

Garlic Scapes & Garlic

Warty Volunteer Pumpkin

Veggie Harvest - Including Potatoes!

Discovering Toad Lilies

Stella Bella & Mazie Boo (Mazie arrived at Christmas)

Oct 31

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Every couple years my front porch starts to look a little shabby. To spruce it up this year, I painted the porch a nice black color and replanted the urns. One of these days I’m going to resurface the front porch with stone and replace the front walk with a more natural walkway. Until then, a new coat of paint does wonders.

Left (front yard urns): Boxleaf Hebe, Aurea Heather, Black Mondo Grass & Scarlet Leader Cotoneaster

Right (back yard urn): Orme Hebe, Spring Torch Heather & Scarlet Leader Cotoneaster

In just a couple hours I went from hating my front porch to accepting it – almost liking it. I bet when the urns fill out – I’ll love this spot even more.

What’s funny is that last time I painted the porch I pretty much just painted it the color of concrete. Then because I picked a laytex paint it scratched off the show the green paint underneath – I hated it from day one.