Fun things to do Outside

Having a yard that is fun, is just as important as it is to have it beautiful. One of the games my grandchildren love to play is "Hide and Seek" with the yard art I have in the yard.  I rearrange them before they come and they go find them. I made a picture page of all the yard art for them to take with them and they run out to find them. It is always fun for them to find the new hiding place's of Nanna's friends.

Summer has come and gone

These are just a few of my favorite summer garden pictures. Enjoy!

                                    Front of the house

Japanese Garden.

                   Our back porch. It looks like my little
        seedlings have done alright.

Coleous are some of my favorite plants. they do well in the sun and the shade and I LOVE the variety of the colors in their leaves.

         This is a view of the lower part of our              back yard from up above. You can see the cement stone patio.

Some of the fall colors.

                    This Coleous took over the whole pot!

Lower waterfall and pond.  The grass leads to the side patio and hot tub area.

Well the trees are still bare of leaves in these pictures, but the spring bulbs and pansies are up.

The cement patio turned out awesome. I will be posting the details of how we made it on the "do it yourself" page.

A bench by the pond.

SPRING FLOWERS

Everyone loves the smell of Spring

I love the Tulips!

EXCITED for SPRING

Spring is just around the corner. I love spring! It is my favorite time of year. I love spring garden's best. The colors are so crisp.

Everything looks so clean and new. It is a renewing of life and so inspiring. These spring pictures are of my garden a couple of years ago.

A vole (not a mole) got in there last year and ate most of them. So I will be planting new ones this year. :)




Things look a little bare without the leaves on the trees.
My yard gets so shady in the summer now that I have to plant mostly shade plants--which I LOVE!

That might seem like a challenge for some, but shade plants are some of my favorites. And I will be starting my seeds in just a couple of weeks. I hope you will join me for that. It is a fun process and is not as hard as you might think.




My boys helped me and my husband build the pond. We have some Koi and fan tail gold fish in it. It has been so enjoyable and has been pretty easy to maintain.






This is a smaller pond and waterfall on the lower part of our backyard. That was a lot of work to do!
But it turned out awesome and we so enjoy the trickling water fall in the summer as we sit out on the deck and eat breakfast or dinner. You can see the patio to the far right. I will have to tell you how we made that! Another clever project that only cost us  $65.00! Yes, it is true! We have done all the work in our yard ourselves on a very tight budget. But it was all well worth it. And we love it!