Sunday, April 18, 2010

Backyard Adventures part 1

I am ready for a backyard oasis! You heard it here first. I am sooo ancy about using the space we have and I love to sit outdoors (when it's not 115 degrees) so I have taken it upon us to fix up our backyard. I have been researching gardening on the world wide web and I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing now. I convinced Tj that I needed his muscles to rip out our darn rose bushes and what would have taken me an hour, took him 5 minutes.


After using his manly muscles, he got intrigued about a leak we had from a really old spinkler head so in about 5 more minutes we had a giant hole in the backyard. He called our friend Quentin over to help (since he works with this stuff everyday) and he finally convinced TJ that we could really spruce this place up a bit, hallelujah! We are going to do a new sprinkler system and get some beautiful grass growing. I will use the old rose bush area for some beautiful tropical hibiscus and we are going to lay stone down around the pool so we have an area to relax around. I'm so excited!!


Since I wasn't allowed to plant my hibiscus yet (gotta wait for the hole to dry out so they can keep digging and cap off the leak) I planted myself some beautiful pots for the front door. I did little ones just to make sure I can do this but once I master it, I will move on to bigger, beautiful flowers, veggies and herbs.



Wish us luck!! this will be quite the project but I'm so excited about it!!

5 comments:

Caton said...

so pretty jen! I am impressed!

Kathleen said...

I can't wait to see the results!!!

This weekend we got our first hanging plant for our balcony. If I can keep that alive, I have big plans for our little balcony!!

McRae Family said...

Good job, Jen! I'm so with you on wanting my backyard done. I'm so sick of dirt weeds and poop!

Jen said...

I LOVE gardening and yard work, oh i can't wait to see it all :)

Ashley Breinholt said...

The pots are so pretty. I love all of the color. Your back yard will look great once you're done! Hopefully it doesn't take all summer to be finished. You'll have to put up pictures as soon as its done.