It's not much of a garden...

[lblanchard]

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Originally uploaded by lb_philly.

...for most people, but for us it's a huge accomplishment.

We were sitting out back this afternoon and Roy wondered why we hadn't done this earlier. After all, we've lived here for 14 years. Well, first we had the community garden to occupy us. Then we had a huge dog and a tiny backyard, so this is really the first year that we had the motivation.

This afternoon, we clawed out the area between the two bushes. We had thrown all kinds of concrete rubble etc there. But today we cleared that out and I put in some pansies. The pachysandra currently in intensive care will go there later.

Doesn't the red maple look happy?

Comments

[momomom.livejournal.com]

Red maple does indeed look happy. It's a very cozy garden.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Cosy is a very charitable way of putting it. Also...hardly any money has gone into it. The biggest expense has been soil amendments and pansies.

[clindau.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is nice.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's an improvement. We'll always miss Mr. Darcy, but we wouldn't want another dog now that we've enjoyed a stink-free back yard space.