Signs of Spring

We spent quite a few weekends the past two months in the garden - you wouldn't have guessed that the little we accomplished took hours and hours of work and resulted in such aching bones and blistered hands! We still have quite a bit of progress to make - and it may not all happen this year - but I'm proud of what we did accomplish! I wouldn't mind paying someone to finish the job either though ;)

We added five green pittosporums (the darker green plant) in an effort to start a hedge line against the front of the house and planted two "tree-shape" plants on either corner - these are the plants that caused most of the blister because we had to dig such deep holes!

The purple hearts are doing great, they have grown taller already. I would like to add more since these seem to be pretty easy to maintain. Peter had planted the little green plants with purple buds the first week of our planting adventure and I'm not sure what they are, but they are all still alive!

And now for some retail signs of Spring - found these sweet little Ella Moss flats on our NYC trip. Love all the fun colors, have already gotten a lot of wears out of these!

Went in search of bluebonnets at Mayfield Nature Preserve - found these instead, but Conley was not a very cooperative subject.

Finally found some bluebonnets at the Wildflower Center - not sure about this smile, but will have to do!

And now back to our yard - we planted four of the larger purple plants in back and unfortunately one is already starting to die - my only theory so far is that maybe it was too close to the tree and had to compete? I would like to get a few more, but maybe not since we already lost one - not sure what these are called either.