For my Dad (and anyone else who wants to read it)

I took a tour of the yard yesterday. I know I should do that everyday to water our plants but I do not. (The girls do a lot of the watering.) What I found out was I need to weed! John has been telling me this for weeks now, but honestly I have been thinking of so many other things I just wanted to put it off.

I did weed one of the smaller beds in the garden the other week. Yesterday, I pulled a lot out of the hosta bed, but there is still so much more in that bed. I will get to the weeding again tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd share some of the pictures I took.

Not the best picture (with the weeds) but you can see how much the hostas have grown.


My hydrangea seems to like its new home AND some magic happened. (keep reading)


I really didn't think the butterfly bush was going to make it a few weeks ago. But wow, it looks great now!


The apple tree is a blooming! There are several leaves beginning to pop out all over!


This is one, of my two, hibiscus that have been attacked by caterpillars. Poor baby!


How this hibicus survived the attack, I don't know but it sure is lovely.


Here is my hydrangea from last year. See the difference?

It is pink!!!! I just moved it from one locale to another (no, I didn't check the soil at either place). But the tag did say it was blue. lol I was talking to my friend Masayo on FB and she had the same problem. She wanted blue (which was on the tag), but got pink. I can't believe I didn't remember it was pink last year!

Well, that is the tour for now. I will be posting a before (again) and after picture of the backyard very soon. The difference between last year and this year is staggering.