A Surprise Garden

A wonderful elderly couple owned our house before we did. He loved his fenced in fruit and veggie garden out back. While she lovingly tended her flower garden out front. They were gently coerced from their home by their children. Between her cancer, winter snows and the gardening their kid's felt better if their parents moved to Washington to be near them.

Since moving here in October we have delicately handled the snow and looked forward to our first spring. I'm not a fan of the messy garden look which was my front view all winter. As spring started to arrive so did the flowers. WOW! It's a different yard everyday. I still find my anal side wanting to have order in the wildness of my yard but I can't deny its color. There are red, white, two pinks, yellow, lavender and multicolored rose bushes. Our ground cover is periwinkle and st. john's wart. I can't even name the different lilies, iris' and others.

Dave being a flower nut has added wisteria across the deck, an arbor with Chilean jasmine, four hydrangeas, geraniums, pansies, garden gates and his famous waterfall garden in the side yard. I don't see him much anymore but with the decks I can always find him. The orchard is scary to us because we're not sure how to care for strawberries, blueberries, plums, pears, peaches, red apple, green apple and 4 kinds of grapes. It's the birds, they're eating more than their fair share. Pruning and feeding...yikes!

We are happy to have a small veggie garden that is doing well. But we had no idea what we had back there and there is still a huge tree yet to figure out. We are finding veggies we did not plant too. I think we should just buy some overalls and put up a stand. In this economy we'd make a fortune. ;) How they put so much on a sloped 1/2 acre is beyond me. My side bar now has my whole home and I'll be updating it as often as I can. Enjoy our surprises!