Back in college, I volunteered with Habitat for Humanity for several service trips. Habitat requires their new home owners put a certain amount of “sweat equity” into their home or the home of another recipient. The other day I started wondering how much “sweat equity” I have put into my yard. Between weeding, planting, and mowing I think I have easily banked hundreds of hours of sweat equity by now! It has certainly been a labor of love.
While scrolling through my phone, I stumbled upon this picture from this time last year. What a sad picture! Two mostly dead butterfly bushes and a couple of hostas– that was the extent of the garden. What’s sad is that it actually took a lot of work just to get to that point– the front “garden” was totally overgrown with weeds.
Last year I planted several perennials and of course a few annuals for color throughout the summer. This year, it has been a joy to see many of the perennials I planted last year return and start to blossom- I especially love the creeping phlox and daffodils. I can’t wait for the knockout roses and Irises to begin blooming. It makes me happy to walk past the garden each day on my way out the door. I am really looking forward to lazy weekend mornings drinking coffee on the porch.
In the backyard, Daniel has started his beehive last week. So far it seems the hive has accepted their queen and the bees started building honeycomb.
Lots of exciting changes in the yard- definitely getting exciting for nights by the firepit!