80's in April - WOW!

Wow! How about the weekend we just had? Was is gorgious or what? I was outside all weekend long. I pulled weeds out of the flower beds and trimmed up bushes to start off. Then I planted one whole side of the house. We had a flower bed put in on the side of our house last fall. I planted the bushes and stuff we wanted over in that bed over the weekend. I planted 2 crimson red azalia bushes, 2 blue hydrangea bushes, 2 butterfly bushes, 2 hostas and a blue spruce dwarf tree that only has a top to it (my idea!) and it looks great! Noone else in the neighborhood has one and I wanted to be different. I also planted two rose bushes in the back of the house. We still need to get some kind of tree to plant in front of our kitchen window on the side of the house. I want to get a tree that does not have a bad rooting system on it and it has to be a tree that does not get very big.

Tom and I have lived in our home for 5 1/2 years now and we are just now getting all of our landscaping done FINALLY,ha. It sure takes time. You have to keep saving every year to do it year by year. The side of the house that I just planted this past weekend was the last bed to do! Now, we just sit back and enjoy it!

I have to tell you what happened when I planted one of the bushes. I did not know it, but I must have hit an ant hill when digging a hole for the bush. I did not see the ants (they were really tiny ants and they blended in with the dirt). After digging the hole, I got down to put the bush in the ground and all of a sudden I was feeling these little pricks of pain all over me! It was the ants! Those little - tiny ants were biting me! I was slapping them off me like mad. I could not believe it. They were everywhere. I finally got them all off me and thought I was ok then I felt another bite and there was some in my shirt on my chest. It was the craziest thing. I did not know that ants that tiny could be so painful. I was not expecting them to bite me like that. I have heard that there are red ants that do that, but I never knew any other ants could bite and I never knew that they could build ant farms/homes like that in your mulch! I will be sure to look really close the next time before I get down to put any plants in the ground!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed your weekend!

Thanks for listening friends.