The weather last Sunday was perfect for gardening - sunny but cool and breezy - so after a lot of raking and digging up we planted flowers (annuals) to add to the existing perennials in our little flower garden. We bought marigolds (yellow and orange), petunias (red and purple) and lantana (the tiny red and yellow flowers towards the back of the photo below). It's going to take a few weeks for them to fill in so that we see more plants and less soil, but the colour and sheer prettiness of the flowers have already made such a difference to the front yard. The bright green leaves in the middle (left) of the photo belong to a hydrangea bush that Bruce and I were given as a gift for our 10th anniversary last year. It has flower buds sprouting, as do the three hydrangeas Bruce planted in the side yard a couple of years ago. However, there is a lot of work to do in the side yard before it looks as good as it did last year - a bunch of weeds and ivy have sprung up there, so I need to start digging. Unfortunately, we haven't had many April showers so I've had to do a lot of watering to ensure we have May flowers. We also bought a couple of bags of potting soil that I'll be adding to the existing soil in the garden in the hopes that will keep the flowers blooming for several months.
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