Notes From the Yard

Here's some pictures of plants in our backyard that I took today. We spent a lot of time this weekend cleaning up the flower beds and pulling weeds. I really like that the last owners put in things that will come back each year. It's kind of fun watching everything come up. We're still not sure what everything is yet. We have been waiting to pull weeds because we're not sure what things are weeds and what things are flowers! It's becoming more clear as time goes on, and we went and bought some roundup for the weeds.

These are my favorites so far. We had purple ones too, but those froze when it snowed a few weeks back.
These are in a flower bed right underneath our bedroom window.

This is the ground cover growing around our deck. Very pretty! We have some white ones too, but the flowers are not doing as well on that one.

I like this one too. I did not cut it back, but I'm going to later this year and get a bigger thing for it to climb up.

Kirk also had to lay down ant and grub poison this weekend- our yard was a huge ant bed. That was not fun, because we had to keep Sarah out of the yard until the poison was dissolved and the grass was totally dry. We also had to chase off robins to keep them from eating the grub things that would come up to the surface. Ew.