Plants! YEA!

We made it to the nursery this weekend and hauled home a trailer load of plants! We worked most of the day on Saturday and part of the day on Sunday getting everything in and set up. Kim at the Signal Mountain Nursery helped draw out a great plan for us---we needed plants for a fairly shady yard and a few things that my black thumb couldn't kill! I've listed the plants that we installed below. I love the green look and I think once they start growing and become established, they'll be great. We bought some river rocks to outline the beds and then bought some flagstone to create steps back to the "nook" between the house and carport where we have the hose. Eventually we might put up a trellis in that area. Next project is installing the new front door (hopefully it'll arrive this weekend), painting the posts, and painting the exterior of the house!

Brooke starts digging!
The finished product on the left side of the stairs.

And on the right side---before we planted.

Flagstone steps---back in that shady corner are the autumn ferns.

And both beds finished!