Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day. Just another day really.  I just happen to see it on the calendar and thought . . . what a great day to blog about our landscaping. Doug & I are avid gardeners. We spent 25 years in our last home and put quite a bit of work into that yard. It was glorious. 

Hello, little blue house.

We didn't have any oak trees in this yard.

We have spent the last 9 months with just grass in our yard. And getting that grass was an awesome day for this guy.

We put in 18 pallets of sod. Wowza! And the rediculous thing about it is it wasn't enough. Doug said we needed about 6 more pallets.  And thank the Lord for these fine men or Doug might be still planting sod.

Green grass. So nice, finally.

We drew bed lines before the sod came because we knew pretty much what was going in there. Those glorious azaleas. Now to have big azaleas like the ones from our old house, you must buy Formosa or George Tabors. Yes. I know their names. We are good friends.

So this past weekend, we drove up to Columbia's Farmer's Market to the big plant show. We were hoping to find some good deals on azaleas because at Home Depot and Lowes, they are anywhere from $18-$25 for a 3 or 5 gallon shrub. 

We were not disappointed. We found 3 gallon shrubs for $5 each. Holy moly! And they were so big. The plant was close to 5 gal. size.

Take a look.

We loaded that trailer up. We probably only needed about 18 azaleas out front but I talked Doug into getting 12 more. That yard is bigger than we realize. We had so much fun. We bought a lot of other things too, but our goal was for azalea love.

Here are a few other things we picked up.

Bedding plants for pots

Dogwood trees

Redbud Trees

And the azalea trailer.That's only half of them.

We also had dug up quite a bit of plants from our old house to use here. They are quite ready to connect with the earth. 

Well, I hope you enjoyed the little yard tour. It's SLOWLY coming together, but it's gonna be awesome when it's done. Can you see it? All those azaleas out under those oak trees? Eye-candy for the neighbors.

It's a lovely view, front & back.

Earth Day is not so far fetched after all . . . 

Psalm 24:1 

"The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world, and all of its people belong to Him."

Happy Earth Day!