Gardening is always a relaxing past time for me. I love to get outside and putz in the yard. I enjoy the creative side of gardening, seeing how plants evolve and adjusting to various weather challenges. This year has been great, lots of nice warm days and plenty of rains in the evenings to keep everything nice and lush. 
When we bought this place it had a lot of ceder and junipers in it as well as rock all over the place. Although much of it is good to keep, I have been gradually taking some out to make way for more flower beds and color. I love perennials and anything that blooms. Last year I planted some rose bushes, and even though we had light snow cover this winter they did great. Roses are such incredibly beautiful flowers. Having said that there is a bug that also finds them incredible....incredibly delicous! The leave are full of little holes so I have been busting out the insecticidal soap. Die bastards die! Ok...back to the serene gardening : )
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The side of the garage was kind of bland and is shady most of the time. I have never really had shade gardens till this house, so I am learning all the time what works and what doesn't. Really you just have to try things and see how it goes. I put up these pots this year and they are doing really well. They get sun in the morning and really like the lack of wind and pounding rain with the garage roof for protection. Begonias are kind of sensitive so I haven't had the greatest luck with them before, but now this spot is a score.
I also planted lots of little pots of pansies here and there and they
are really nice for some simple color. I love these purple ones with
the bright green pot. So that's whats blooming in the yard this year. It a good year to be a gardener : )
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