Mary Mary Quite Contraray

I am really proud of my yard (grass) and flowers. When I bought my house, it had no grass. I have worked very hard to get grass to grow. That includes watering my grass 3 times a week last year in the drought. People thought I was crazy for spending that much money on my water bill but I had already spent so much money on grass seed, weed and feed, and not to mention the time I took to till (my self) and rake up rocks. Last fall I actually picked up 18 buckets of rocks from an area of 15x8! I kept tilling, picking up rocks, tilling, picking up rocks. I aerated, put down tons of grass seed, and have already put down lime twice, and nitrogen. So, without further ado, here is my yard!

Okay, you probably can't see it real well, but still, that grass looks good, doesn't it?

That flower bed to the left of the house? The tallest shrub is a butterfly bush. That sucker gets HUGE! I cut about 1/2 of it down in the fall. It just amazes me. I have two burning bushes, and some other stuff that looks real pretty when it blooms. And that tree over the back top of my house? That is the ONLY live part of it. It's skinny and ugly, and when the blows really hard, different parts of it fall off. The one on the back left is big and beautiful though!


This is one of my flower beds. Those are Dianthus at the front, then Purple Niffty Thriffty (you can't really see them that well), White Candy Tufts, and the along the back and side are Pink Azaleas.

I have purple Phlox along both sides of the driveways. One died last year and I can't find the EXACT color to replace it. Ariana LOVES these things!

And just to give you an idea of how hard I have worked, I'm standing in my front yard taking a picture of the house across the road. She flat out doesn't care. Oh, and my Japanese Maple I spent $100 on three Springs ago? It hasn't grown an inch, and in fact, I thought it died last year due to the frost snap we had after it bloomed.

By the way, I do NOT let Chris mow. He couldn't mow a straight line if it was drawn for him. I let him try once, and the lines starting going all curvy and slanting right. NOT going to happen again!