Welcome To My Garden! (pic heavy)

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I've been planting my gardens all week and thought I'd take you all on a little tour of the finished product!
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Front yard under the maple tree:





Front garden
 

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I'm jealous. Month of May was totally booked. We just started with the vegie garden on Monday - planted tomatoes and green beans. I also planted some lilies too. But that's as far as we got
Hoping to do more planting this coming Saturday.
 
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Around to the side:



I love tree fuscias!



More of the side garden around the deck:





By the deck stairs:







Another planter at the corner of the garden:
 
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My new rhododendron:



Mandevilla planter - this one will have huge pink flowers!





I love bleeding hearts - I have several varieties:
 
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Up the stairs to the deck - I have pots on each step:



You can see my new pergola up above the deck:





One of my deck planters:



Rosebud impatiens with white lobelia - it will look like a bridal bouquet in a few weeks:
 
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Still on the deck. Those a wave petunias - and will be massive all flowing down over all sides - my fuscia hanging there too!



More wave petunias:



And more:



One of my kitty planters. Those are yellow osteospurmum in him!



Begonia



That's a solar kitty at the top of the steps - he glows blue!



More solar kitties:
 
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Into the back yard. I have lilacs lining the back with garden fairies set between them. That's a magnolia in the foreground.







My little tree peonies:
 

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WOw, Colleen...its obvious how hard you worked getting that to look so pretty!! It is breathtaking


Great job, what beautiful landscaping you have done there
 
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Along the fence:







I planted this rhododendron last year. But look - he has a gnome hiding under him!





A friend for him:



Jacob's ladder is doing well"
 
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Well, that's the tour! Now you all know what I've been up to lately! I must admit I didn't plant the hanging baskets (too lazy) but I did plant everything else, including all the planters!
Now if we can just agree on some deck furniture (we got rid of our old stuff).
 

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I love it! I wish I was that inspired and my thumb was that green. I don't have the patience for gardening, but we have fairies and the little "rain globes" in our garden too. BTW, where did you get the solar kitties? I must have them. :gets a slightly crazed, glazed look:
 

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Your garden is GORGEOUS!!! I wish I had that kind of talent. It certainly looks like your hard work has paid off! I love your kitty planters and accessories too!!!
 

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Wow! You have a NICE garden!
I have to redo the pond with all the rain we've had!
It's never been this bad and I just remulched a few areas. I hope I don't have to do that again either.
I love your garden! Good work!
 
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Thanks everyone! I love gardening!
The solar kitties were bought at Giant Tiger. It's a Canadian store, so not sure where you'd find them in the States. And it was last year - they don't have them this year, at least not around here!
 

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That all looks fantastic Colleen!
You planted quite a few annuals.


I love your tree peony.
 
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Thanks, Karen! I just planted it last year, so this is it's first year blooming! I love the colour!
 
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