Almost Green

Today started bright and early. Well, maybe I should say it was fuzzy at first until I found my glasses. Chino was perturbed because he wanted to be outside when the sun came up and I made him wait until I found my glasses and we could go hang out on the patio together and greet the day. We would have made it at 6 am but it was about 6:25 before I finally found them. I fell asleep playing iPhone games with Mariah in my bed and I think they must have been on top of the covers and ended up getting flung across the room. Haha. Mike found it really humorous to help me look at 6 am on a Saturday. I tried not to wake him, but cell phone illumation and a pat down all around you tends to wake a guy.

Once we spent some time outside greeting the day and I dealt with the kitty scowling that the sun was already up, we got to work on today's landscaping projects. Grammy and I decided to put last years porch arbovitae in the creek bed since there aren't any evergreens over there and it would make for a really nice beautification of the area. I had a couple of logs I was considering using for the berm, but this morning I decided to switch it with some of the Osage orange logs. Those suckers were HEAVY!! About 3x heavier than the one I moved out. The Tree Guy told me the wood is strong and so dense that it will neither rot nor be affected by bugs or termites for decades. Considering there's not a sprinkler system out there, that means the berm may outlast our arbovitae!

While Mike was assembling his new BBQ, Grammy and I transplanted a bazillion daffodils before the patio project is finished. We will have to bring in alot of topsoil and do alot of replanting. I anticipate alot of digging in my future.
Since the photo was taken, Grammy and I shopped at 3 plant stores and bought tons more plants. I planted creeping vinca all around the arbovitae and a red flowering quince. We completely filled the back of her Honda with plants and had to use the back seats too. Good thing Mariah wasn't with us! The ride home from the last place had our front porch Mexican Petunia trees (below) invading my personal space. Haha. I am really excited about them! They have been forced into ornamental trees with braided trunks. It's too dark now to take a photo, but when we get them planted in our new front porch pots I will definitely take photos!

But the plant I think we are most excited about is one we've never heard of before (above). The common name is Bush Clover. The mushumkim name is Lespedeza thunbergii "Volcano". We found it at a neat Nursery that is a little bit of a drive, but they have great prices and cool finds like this. We may have to hit 3 or 4 places but at the end of the day, we have a carload of cool plants and another's day worth of gardening. In a couple months, we will have a beautiful yard too!