Thanks Stargazer, that made me feel so much better
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Well it's a bit warmer here today and more sun - yay!
We've only been in our house for about a year so last year we had to clean up a huge mess that the previous owners left behind in the yard. The house was okay but it was a rental unit so no one looked after the yards. I dug up so much junk, broken glass, garbage, building materials etc. at one point I wouldn't have been suprised to find body back there -in fat I did find a perfectly stripped squirrel skeleton one day - ack! Lucky I had heavy duty garden gloves on or I would have totally freaked!
I planted an herb garden in the backyard consisting of Lavender, Mint, chives, basil, oregano and some tomatoes. I would like to try out a few more things this year although I think we need to remove a lot of the soil in the raised beds and replace it with better quality stuff.
The front of the house is a brick courtyard with 3 small flowerbeds and a blossoming tree. My mum and I planted yellow day lilies in the centre of two of the beds and mixed in white daisies and black pansies in with them - they turned out really well.
The third bed had some daffodils mixed in with purple flowers and a climbing plant - this one was okay but not great - so we are going to try something that grows taller and is a little more lush in order to cover the grey concrete at the front of the house.
I am just dipping my toe in the gardening waters but I really enjoy it. It makes you feel connected to the earth and nature. I make my husband laugh because everytime I dig up a worm I apologise to it and gently put it down elsewhere in the garden - DH thinks I'm nuts but I figure the worm is not doing me any harm so why would I harm it - right?