Here it is from the front - lots of stuff coming out. The tree just off the driveway is my mother's day present (an Eastern Redbud)
(I promised pictures, so here they come!
Kris
New House pic - we're in!
Nice picture of your home..The Redbud Tree will be a nice focal point on your property .
Ingrid
Congratulations on the new digs, Kris. Sure looks great! Keep those pictures comin'...
:Donna
What a lovely home Kris! It will be exciting for you to discover what's growing there.
Pam
looks great. It'll be so exciting to see what you have and the changes you make.
ENJOY!
Okay, here are a series of pictures! Thank you for your encouragement!
This first picture is our new Contorted White Pine. Isn't it adorable?
Kris
Here's my back yard pond and waterfall....
EDITED: Whoops! Wrong pic! I'll try again below....
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Here's our corkscrew hazelnut at the front little pond.
Here's our purple sandcherry doing its stuff! That was a fun surprise. I didn't expect any of the bushes to flower, so that's been a lot of entertainment around here!
Here's our front flower bed. It's all greenery (I don't know what it all is yet), but we've planted some phlox and some poppy seeds. I'm not sure what else to put in here yet, but there are spots to fill, for sure.
Here's a side view of our front little pond.
This is in the front pond, I don't know what it is, but I'm soon to find out, I guess...
Here's a little bush I saw at the nursery with a picture of great flowers, so I know it's going to flower, but I forget what it is. I don't know what the little shamrock kind of thing is that's peeking out of it, but again....we'll see (is it a weed? I tend to nurture weeds for a while. I like to be sure).
Here's another little bush that surprised me with flowers!
So....lots of pictures.
I've been busy adding things as well. I've put some water irises, water lettuce and water hyacinth in the pond, along with about 15 comets.
I bought two columbine plants and put them in beside the deck...and then realised that the foliage on the other side of the house is the same, so I'll have lots of columbine!
I put in a couple of spiderwort plants around the front pond. Ugly name for a spectacular flower.
I set up containers with berry plants (raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, and strawberry). My husband is supposed to be building me some nice wooden planters for them (so they don't take over the lawn).
We've got in our three new trees, I think I already mentioned. My eastern redbud, the pink flowering almond, and I showed you the white pine.
I'm trying to count my trees. I have three serviceberries (one I think is dead. It still isn't doing anything). I have a weeping mulberry, a fig tree (looks like a bush, though). I have two little conical evergreens and a contorted white pine. I have one of those twisted spiral evergreens, I have a sycamore tree (just a baby), a few baby pine trees, a green maple, an eastern redbud, the flowering almond...I think that's it. Not bad for a regular suburban lot, hmm?
If the serviceberry isn't going to make it, I wonder what I'll put in. Before we moved in, I thought I could get a spice bush in behind the waterfall, but there are already perennial flowers (don't know what they are) growing back there. I don't know where I could cram a spice bush, but I'm really hoping to find a spot, because they're so impressive.
This is really, really a lot of fun.
Kris
Here's another try to let you see the pond open!
Love your yard and flowers beds and trees and ponds, Kris. Don't worry, IMO, you can't ahve enough Columbine. I have another Butterfly Colubine that is starting to flower. I'll get my camera going again soon.
Thanks for sharing. You are a lucky lady. :)