my very own flower bed

My husband is majoring in horticulture & landscape design. He is completely and utterly obsessed with all things plants/trees/shrubs/flowers. You'd think that our yard would be in impeccable shape considering that he works for a nursery (& gets a pretty sweet discount) but 'twas not so until this week.

If you've followed this blog, you might recall that last year, I returned from a little trip to find that sweet hubby had (with lots of help) laid down sod. This was the first improvement to the exterior of our little fixer-upper.

We didn't do much with the yard after that. Between winter and snow and Ben's insanely busy school & work schedule and oh, yeah, a pregnancy and now, a new baby...there just wasn't time. But now, we're kind of figuring out our new lives, Ben's schooling has gone from 5 classes to just 2 and we had some rare "spare" time on Monday, while Erich 1)slept and 2)sat happily in the swing.

I was totally shocked when Ben asked if I wanted to pick out some flowers to plant in a little dirt strip in front of our patio. Completely shocked. He's a little OCD when it comes to thinks like this....as in, he'd spend TONS of time measuring with a ruler or string to get the flowers exactly equal distances apart from each other. I enjoy seeing the fruits of my labor with things like this, so I obliged and we headed to his work to pick out flowers.

The above picture is of me and my finished project. Now, the lawn is mowed, we have a little color, and Ben also planted some roses in the bed next to mine. It's fun to pull into the driveway and see that our yard is looking halfway decent....now I just wish the neighbors would get with it!!!