Gone Feral In Idaho

This is what sprung up in my garden. This is what I thought we'd have.

I still find them beautiful.

Last year I couldn't bring myself to cut some spring flowers for indoors. This past weekend we had a dinner party, so I went for it. Now I don't even have to look out the window to see some spring color. With a grey house, the color really stands out.

150 lbs of pebbles more, and I'm calling this project temporarily complete. I'd like the rock to be deeper, but its expensive and I'm on a tight budget these days starting up a new business.  Tonight Kyle will help me move the three large planters of bamboo from the back yard and we'll place them along this wall to break up all those horizontal lines.They still look a little ratty and need some pruning, so I'm not sure if a photo will appear right away. The tulips have started to bloom. I'm not sure what happened to the daffodils in the front bed, they only bloomed for a few days. We have others that are still going strong elsewhere. This weekend, we should have a lot of color. 

The fruits of our fall labor in planting 300 or so bulbs sure makes me happy each day I get home from work. We may move some of them for more spaces for other perennials and pockets of annuals. I'm thrilled with the explosion of color. One of our neighbors came over, completely mysified and asked "how did you do that?". They must not have been looking out the window last October/November. Oh, I'll bet the Halloween display threw them off...  We imagined getting a house with lots of character, maybe something older, but none of those houses were much more than dumps, so we went for this place that has quite a large lot for the neighborhood. I think if we get a new tree (the maple in front is diseased) and maybe a pergola over the front window with some sort of flowering vine, this place could gain a lot of charm. A new paint job is a must. I call this color drab greenish gray.  A view of my bicycle planter in the daylight. The back basket will be planted with mas...