Morning Enjoyment

One of my recent appreciations has been the wonderful contrast of the brilliant blue sky with the luscious green maple leaves. I could stare up at it for awhile, taking in its bigness and beauty. However, now as i sit out on the desk, i have something new to look at. . . a new appreciation- a garden built by our two hands. And i absolutly love it. We already took a walk through it together this morning, Tj with his coffee and me with the camera. There are many pictures that might not really interest you, but we are pretty proud and excited. Most of the plants are in transplant shock, for we moved them from a home of at least a couple of years, but they will like their new home- i hope. We actually only spent $50 in plants. We needed some that you could walk on for our path and we needed some for the top rock garden. While walking by the rock garden, one will find Hens & Chicks, Voodoo Sedum, Creeping Phlox, pottery snails, a believe rock, and red sedum.
Along the path in the middle garden grows a hosta (from david) , lots of lilies (from TJ), red mums (from TJ) , daisies (from Morgan, a student from four years ago) , hardy geranium (from Kathleen), clematis bush (from Kathleen), spiderwort (from Lori), pink peony (from Lori), Creeping thyme (new purchase), Hyacinths (from Marilee and TJ), some button (new purchase), and two mystery plants (from David- i forgot what they were!).
As you walk down the steps into the lower garden the lower garden is a juniper (from David), tons of daisies (from Morgan), Thyme new purchase), Fox Glove (new purchase), pink mums ($.50 each!), Cone Flowers (From Aunt Carol), Columbine (new purchase), Black-eyed Susan (from David), and short shasta daisies (new purchase).
I love walking around the garden and thinking of all the friends and family that we got the flowers from. I finished planting at 10:00 last night, tired, mosquito bitten, and filthy. But i cried at the sight of what we had done. It is going to take awhile to fill in and look mature, but for a one-day old garden. . . it doesn't look bad at all. We love gardens and we have waited so long to have this one. It will bring us great enjoyment. We still have some plants to move to a shade garden that have been patiently waiting for a permanent home. We know right were it is going to be, we just haven't had the chance. I love where we live!