I decided that we had to start planting last friday night because it was supposed to rain on saturday (Rand thought I was crazy). So by the time we got to Lows and got home,(with only the bushes because it was so late) it was almost 10:00 pm! Can I tell you how great it is to plant at 10:30 at night! We have a street lamp on the corner of our lot, so our front yard has plenty of light. There was no sun and a light breeze, so the weather was perfect...it was awesome. Highly recommended. We could see the storm rolling in as we were planting and right as we finished, it started raining. It poured for a while and I was worried that we wouldn't be able to finish it the next morning.
We got up early and checked the dirt which looked very wet, but that wasn't going to stop me from finishing my project dang it! After another round at lowes and several hours of planting, we finished it. The dirst was actually fine- it was only wet on the top. I need to take better pictures, but of course it rained again last night so everything looks dirty- you will have to wait.
So for any green thumbs out there that are interested in what we actually planted (or want to look it up)... we have two kinds of bushed, a boxwood and a Euonymus (looks like a boxwood, but has white edges). We have a few Hosta Patriots( my favorite!) yellow stella de oro daylillies, and moonbeam coreopsis (a way cute little yellow daisy bush). We also have tihis pink flower bush that I have no idea what it is called, but I had to have it! Rand chose this wierd grassy thing that I don't care for called a gold bar miscanthus. It looks like striped spider legs and kind of wierds me out. I guess it will be cool once it gets bigger. And then of course we have a few annual flowers that will hopefully fill in until everything gets bigger.
I will post some better pictures once it is sunny again!
3 comments:
The flowers are beautiful! And I love that you were out late planting them... that is the best time to do it since it is so hot outside lately. Trace showed me how to fix a broken sprinkler pipe late at night. We had to use a flashlight! The yard is coming along great!
I looks Great!! Good work guys! I love that you gave us the official names to each of the plants. I will have to Google them and get a closer look!!!
That's hilarious that you guys were planting stuff at 10:30 at night--even funnier that Rand thought you were crazy! Your plants look beautiful; maybe by the time we make it out there to visit you they will be big and full! :-)
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