Flowers and Veggies

We started actually working on our yard this past summer. We made flower beds in the front yard and along the edges of the house. The bed at the back of the house had veggies in it.

This is the left side of the front steps. We had elephant ears, coleus, dahlias, a red banana plant, and some petunias.



Across the walk way we installed was the big flower bed in the front yard. It had our lilies, a hydrangea, some daisies, and a few other assorted plants we bought at the botanical garden. We also put in some rocks for decoration, one painted orange with a paw.



This is the rose my dad had given me back the first summer we lived in our house. Next to it is a small dahlia we got at the farmers market.



This is the right side of the steps. There are begonia, calla lilies, irises that used to be my grandmothers (they didn't bloom this year, hopefully next year) and our japanses maple.



This is the back yard's veggie garden. It mostly had tomatoes. There was also some basil and oregano. Between the tomatoes there were marigolds. They supposedly keep away pests that kill tomato plants. We had four different types of tomatoes: a better boy, a hybrid that was disease and heat resistant, grape tomatoes, and roma tomatoes. Next year we may branch out to other veggies.