curb appeal

the area beyond our porch has two bushes and some empty space with a bunch of weeds. it's been this way the whole five years i (tiffanie) have lived here. every spring, azaleas bloom in the area and they're beautiful. so i decided to get some to plant in our only "garden." right next to our "garage" where we keep blake's bike.

while we were out saturday night, we saw a plant stand in the parking lot where we went out to dinner, and so we got some pretty pink blooms. blake picked the color :) also, we snuck over to my folks' garage and stole some gardening tools. don't tell.

this afternoon, we weeded. thank goodness we stole gardening gloves from pat, they were really helpful. those green sprouts were rooted pretty deeply and their roots criss-crossed underground. we did our best to pull up what we could.

then we rode the bike around. ok, not really. but, on a side note about the bike, two things. during all our weeks of snow, we used it to mark blake's parking spot - hey, neighbors we spent 3 hours digging out this spot, don't you dare take it while we're gone - and one time, someone ran it over. the front tire is very bent, if you haven't noticed. second thing, we took pictures of it today to put it on freecycle. please, someone come take it. please. it's been on our porch since we got married over 3 years ago.

what a safe neighborhood we live in, right? an unchained bike was safe for over 3 years and no one stole it. ok, that was three things about the bike.

ok, back to the flowers.

so many roots!

then we planted our four pretty bushes. and sorta made a mess on the porch. but who has a big outdoor broom in a one bedroom condo? not us. so, please excuse our dust.

handsome!

ok, so they need a little time to grow into their new digs.

kitty was a good gardening supervisor.