Spring Gardening

Our front yard looks awesome! We trimmed our plants back to get rid of all the dead leaves, had mulch put in, and planted some spring annuals for color. We had fears that we had lost our big beautiful varigated gingers and even the elephant ears but we are already seeing new little green shoots coming out of the ground... new ones every day! We call them our little baby plants and coo over them. :-)

Here are some pictures we took today as we were admiring our yard. The Camelia is going crazy... It usually blooms in December or January but we had a really wierd cold winter. Emily and I cut a few blooms to put in the house. It doesn't last long but I love this plant!

.

The Red Bud is also in bloom. It gets better blooms every spring.

And here is the nice color we added on our driveway. We got yellow marigolds and red impatients this year. Emily took these pictures. She is becoming quite the photographer!