Plants

One of the positive things about our lovely house is that we inherited some pretty nice plants in the yard.

There were some bushes at the back of the yard along the neighbors fence that Ben kept talking about cutting down. I convinced him not to. I'm glad I did because it turned out they were lilac bushes! They were beautiful and full of blossoms early in spring, but unfortunately we had a very rainy season while they were at their peak, so I couldn't get any pictures.

We had these iris bulbs out in the front lawn. Ben dug them up and replanted them in the front flower bed and in front of our front porch/stairs. Russell has loved watching them bloom. He has asked to smell them every day when we go outside. He says they smell like the ice cream treat that our back neighbor gave us. He is right. They do.

Oh, and we think those little ones are chives. They smell and taste like chives.

Hosta in the front yard. It is pretty big, but not nearly as big as our neighbor's across the street. Ben tried getting rid of them, but he didn't even come close to getting rid of all the bulbs. I think we are both glad because it gives a nice change to our weed bed/mushroom field known as our front lawn.

Our peony bush falling over from the weight of all the flowers. I told Ben I wanted peonies somewhere in the yard, and was so happy to discover this bush by the kitchen windows! They remind me of our home in Mt. Vernon because they were the plants at the bottom of the stairs. I even think they are the same color.

I had to bring some inside.

This has nothing to do with our plants, but I am so excited about the color of our front door!We wanted something to give the front of our drab house some life, and I think this does it. I have also made a new house number sign to go in between the door and window. It's a big J painted the same purple with white numbers. I can't wait for Ben to put it up.