coming up roses.

This past weekend was a perfectly gorgeous two days of spring in DC. So, on Sunday, Ben and I decided to make the most of it with a full day of yard and garden work. Slowly but surely, we have been gardening and planting up a storm the last couple of weeks and our yard is finally coming together. A couple weeks ago, Ben's mom thinned her garden and sent down Iris bulbs for us to garden along our border wall and just inside the gate - we are really excited to see them bloom in the next month.

Here are some of the iris bulbs starting to show in front of the house...

And last week, we added annuals along the wall and in the yard to add a pop of color...

On Sunday, we decided to buy two Azalea Encore bushes to put in front of the porch. We anticipate they are going to grow wide and long and fill in nicely. With that said, we had to dig up the iris bulbs and move them out from the porch to fit the azaleas and then replant the iris bulbs again....

But here is the finished front with the newly planted azaleas and the replanted iris bulbs!

And finally, we decided to fix and build up the tree boxes that are on the south sidewalk of our house. They have been severly neglected and we wanted to start to beautify that part of the street - it was a long day - but it is all coming together slowly! Here is the before...

We made an early morning trip to Home Depot after measuring everything out and we beat the crowd to the lumber section and had them cut everything up...and Ben did the bulk of drilling and staking and drilling and staking...

 And here are the newly bordered tree boxes...

Next steps include figuring out what we can plant in the tree boxes that 1) cheap 2) we don't need to water/maintain and 3) dog friendly. If you have any suggestions - we are all ears...and in the meantime - you can find us watering a lot!