I live in Arizona, which is the Southwest, not the "South". With that said. I love:
Sweet Tea,
Hydrangea's and
Magnolia Blossoms...
Since I am not willing to transplant myself to the true South to have these 3 loves, I'll just bring them to me :-)
I am having fairly good success with my little garden patch. By success I mean its all still a shade of green and I have not completely forgotten to water it (yet). ;-) So, I felt somewhat confident in expanding my garden areas... {the picture below might deceive you. That is faux grass. I tried very hard to grow nice "real" grass. All I grew was mud. So, we had this awesome faux grass put in. LOVE it!}
I had this little space between the "shed" and my husbands' "Mopar Garage"... Which I deemed a perfect place to attempt to grow one of these:
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An Incrediball Hydrangea Shrub... which I had to order. I went into my local HD and was talking with one of the awesome garden gals. She was explaining to me how alkaline AZ soil is... not ideal for a hydrangea. So, she told me what to do and gave me a little confidence boost to attempt it... If its not going to make it I hope it lets me know within 90 days (I can take it back for a full refund... LOVE HD). While I was talking to the awesome garden gal I told her that I also love magnolia's but "ya right on that growing in AZ." She said that she's actually seen a couple of them in this area.... WHAT??? Ok, I'll try that too then. (Got free shipping by ordering my 6.99 tree... A tree for 7 bucks?? Yep... Here she is:
:-) Do you see the little green thing almost centered? That's my baby Magnolia Evergreen tree... She's got some room to grow. She might actually end up like this:
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Woohoo!!! Back to the hydrangea... it of course needed the classic white picket fence behind it. So, I built one last week while I was waiting for my shrub and tree to come...
I even made a bird seed feeder. Its on its own little post to the front right in the picture. The 2 fence posts were set with some cement, as well as the little bird feeder post. I had pre-painted all the pieces, so I need to do some touch up. A little concrete got on the post. oops... This fence was loads of fun to build. I love using the pneumatic nailer. Wicked fun!
Hopefully she makes it.
Oh, and a garden update:
Nino :-) decided that the pea's looked like a nice little bed for all 80lbs of him to lay on a couple of days ago... I was not impressed.
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I'd been wanting to have a little spot of earth to grow a few things in for a while now. So, this year I did. There's a little corner in the back yard between the driveway and our neighbors fence which I thought would be perfect.
I'm not really sure how well all of this is going to go. So, I didn't really want to invest alot into this. I of course would love to make a beautiful raised bed. But, I figured I better take it slow.
I have a little tiller which I used to till the dirt there and then I got some nice garden soil to add to it. My sweet little Nene decided that I was taking to long to distribute the extra soil so she helped me out. :-) She's such a sweetheart. Needs to work on patience (among other things).
I planted (from bottom to top) Onions, Sweet Peas, and Corn. Of course I had to add a cute little garden thingy too. :-)
Hopefully I don't forget to water it this summer :-) Its already super hot here. We hit the 90's on Saturday :-) I don't know what happened to Spring. We went from Winter to Summer overnight. Oh well, as long as my little garden makes it.
