Progress is Slow

Back in July I took you on a tour of the back garden.  We moved into our current house in the late spring of 2015 and have only lived here for three summers and the first wasn't spent gardening.  It was spent taking down some over growing weed trees and shrubs, installing a fence and getting a shed.  Not very glamorous, but necessary.  We really started building our garden right after our daughter was born in the winter of 2016.  So we still have a lot of places were there are plans, but not really anything to show except for our ideas and excitement.

This side of the garden is one of those spots.  You can see we had gotten started around the pecan tree making a home for the Japanese Maple first and then the Triceratops we purchased this summer.

The area in front of the shed is eventually going to be a pallet garden to hold daylily seedlings and anything else that needs a little extra protection from the dogs. Back in July, we had gotten all the pallets we needed and purchased the fence.  We had even dug two fence hole (by the way not the best idea to dig hole in the yard and then do nothing with them for a month or two), but nothing beyond that had happened.

Finally with the cooler temperatures a few weeks ago and a little extra time during someone's nap, we've managed to move forward.  The fence is up on all but one side, but the gate isn't in.  The pallets aren't ready for planting yet either, but we're getting there. 

 We did create the flower bed along the fence for our mini-daylilies and move the claw foot bathtub over there.  Formally it lived on the patio and was used a drink cooler on occasion.  It's also been a carnivorous garden and a tropical planter.  Not a single daylily has actually been planted, but we've sorted out who is going where, so when we have the time it won't take us long.  The really short plants will go in the tub and the taller will go into the ground around it.  Hopefully later this week.

 

We also moved some former indoor decor outside.  Our old house was a four square style farmhouse that had lots of walls and therfore lots of space for wall art.  We had a collection of signs on the stairway wall.  This house is smaller and much more open, with significantly less wall space.  We've gotten creative with the signs and all of them had homes.  Then we switched a few things up and the S & H Green Stamps sign became homeless.  So after a brief stint in the garage, it is once again on display brightening up the side of our shed.  Normally we would worry about ruining the sign, but this one is already in pretty rusty shape. 

 Finally Triceratops has a permanent home in the garden.  While we knew basically where our new dinosaur friend was going to go, we hadn't firmed up the positioning.  We decided that this Triceratops would like to look out over the rest of the garden and the pool.  It also gave us a great view from our patio. Nice how that worked out.  We have planted a few perennials around it's feet and have plans to add some elephant ears and ferns next year.  Down the road, this dinosaur will look right at home in it's garden.

 So thats where we're at right now.  Not as far along as we had hoped, but at least we aren't moving backwards.  What gardening projects have you managed to complete lately?