An Awesome View of Life

Sun Lit Shade Tree This beautiful tree shades most of our back yard for the majority of the day.  It just looked so pretty with the sun shining on it. Yard work is almost done.  About 6 hours yesterday and another 2 hours today. Hot and buggy out there.  yuck!  A few plants need to be split and moved to new spots in the yard.  Waiting for the perennials to go on sale and will probably buy another 4-6 plants. Oh!  The weed killer recipe I posted a few days ago works like a charm.  You really need to soak the weeds with this solution.  It even killed most of the Creeping Charlie.  Just beware it DOES kill grass and anything else you spray it on so be careful.

Tiger in the Jungle Two years ago I planted about 200 flower bulbs.  Last year we had a few new tulips and some iris grow but nothing else.  Some lilies DID grow but the rabbits like to eat those so we never had flowers just stems.  This year we didn't have any tulips but about 10 times more iris.  The lilies the bunnies normally eat actually bloomed but were on the end of stems without any leaves.  (: There is one flower bed that is almost always weeds.  It is over run by creeping charlie and a variety of other invasive weeds.  This year we just let the weeds take over.  But among the weeds are bunches of these beautiful lilies.  I guess now I have to go out and weed so they can continue to grow.  ): This one was tucked under a "volunteer" tree with just a tad of sunshine hitting.  Pretty, pretty.