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| The wildflower garden emerging |
In the spring I have a REALLY hard time focusing on work. The beautiful thing is that my office overlooks our backyard and so until about 3 pm when the sun gets too hot in the western sky that I have to pull my blinds, I can revel in the backyard that is continuing to evolve over the past three years.
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| Our pond |
Every morning after heading to the gym I put on my sunscreen (still in love with my Beauticontrol Cell Block C AM sun protection because I absolutely hate wrinkles and skin cancer). www.beautipage.com/beautifulskinandspas. Then I head out to the garden for a couple of hours, waiting to see if anything looks different from the day before. This is the first year of our wildflower garden. I spread some seeds last fall; and then more seeds the first week of May. We'll see how it progresses. The creekbed is nearly finished. We still need a couple more loads of larger rocks to finish the waterfall and for the pond basin. It's been a hard project with lots of heavy labor because we've done all the work ourselves, but so rewarding!!!
Our goal is to have perennials but also part of this backyard be native wildflowers and grasses so that we don't have to spend a ton of time with mowing and upkeep. We want it to attract birds and were SO excited to see our first goldfinch this morning--3 of them sitting on the feeder eating. What fun!
This weekend is Memorial Day; I'm sure I'll we'll be exhausted but it's a good exhaustion. I can't wait to see what new things have budded if it ever stops raining!
