Abso-bloomin-utely!

Am I proud of Mr. Shady?

Abso-bloomin-utely!

After all, this is what he did for me this weekend:

He installed the first of our (hopefully) three rain barrels!!

We'll keep the piece of downspout handy, as that will be reinserted before Winter's freezing temperatures.

It rained just a bit today (.2") and the barrel is completely full!! (The overflow pipe lowers the water level in the barrel to 50 gallons.)

Just thought you might like to know!

In February, Dave (The Home Garden) had asked us to post our wishes for this year's growing season. Click to see his post and his request.

My post contained hard scape desires. If you want to see my "wish list" posted in February, click here.

#1 has been scratched off the list in favor of a few trellises instead of a fence behind the raised beds. You can catch a glimpse of the two trellises in place so far.

Left photo, Clematis 'Niobe' (planted 3 years ago)
Right photo, Clematis 'Nelly Moser' (planted this Spring)

A peek at the back of part of the raised beds.
Can you spot the trellises here?

#2 is nearly finished. I'm adding to the length of panel #5 to accommodate the larger space at the end of the raised beds.#3 is still in the dream and design stage. I'm really FINE with waiting another year on this one (water feature).

#4 is in the waiting stage (small pergola). Other outside work needs to be accomplished first.

#5 is finished. The garden boxes are in place and lined with black landscaping fabric. (See the final photo above.) It's been too wet so far this year to be able to obtain a load of dirt. The suppliers cannot get to it.

#6 is unnecessary (play house). A cute idea, but at this point in time, unnecessary. :-)

I'm a happy gardener!
Enjoy your Sunday!