Spring time

It's my favorite time of the year... Longer days. Weather feels great. No mosquitos. And back breaking gardening.. Good thing I'm married to a chiropractor!

Funny how I hated gardening as a kid. I think it was being forced to wake up at 7am on the weekends for hours of no fun, sweeping, edging, cutting, pulling weeds, etc.

Fast forward 30 years... and I dream about the vines I'm going to train around the door, or about the mystery plant that popped in the back yard that I'm going to espelier. I even find myself going through endless of gardening blogs... Man I'm old and boring.

I must thank god for Jose, our lawn guy. He does the tedious job of mowing, edging, and cleaning so I can enjoy the planting and designing of the garden beds. If I were to do his job it would take me 2 hours... He does it in 15 mins! $20 well spent in my eyes!!!!

Today I woke up early thinking about going to home depot to pick up some mulch but instead decided to plant a succulent garden. At 10am Hayden and I are having breakfast while waiting around until noon when Home Depot opens... I decided to google the store hours. What???!!! It opened at 8am. Arggg. (ha ha)

Well this is my succulent garden... Drought tolerant plants with a modern aesthetics. Give it some time and it's gonna grow into a beauty. The purple fountain grass in the back will grow taller than the horsetail plants in the middle, and the assortment of moss and cacti succulents should fill out nicely.

Here is the back breaking work... 15 bags of composts and 10 bags of mulch. I'll do the mulch next week.

The fruits of our labor is most enjoyed while watching Hayden playing in the backyard. Music is blasting in the background.. and ofcourse... Lennox is doing his thing.