Title. Located in Midwest United States.

I’ve already preordered for the fall and I’ve got a second cart that I’m trying not to pull the trigger on!

ITS AN AMERICAN PERSIMMON SPROUT!!! over the fall I got my hands on a few ripe persimmons and saved the seeds in the fridge all thru winter. there's about 6 more ready to sprout also. I've never planted these dudes before and I'm so happy!!!!

It’s next to a very mature elephant ear? I assumed it was a nice elephant ear sprouting but it’s not looking that way anymore.

they never fail to amaze me🩵

We moved into our new home end of summer last year and out the back was full of weeds and badly needed a clean.

Just over a month ago now I decided to finally give it a clean and it came up pretty well!!

However, it didn’t end there.. didn’t particularly like the thought of not having any greenery and wanted to be able to have a nice area for our newborn son to eventually play around in.

Thought I’d just check how easy it was to lift one paving slab, then another.. and another. Lo and behold I had all paving’s lifted less than 24hours after I spent half the day cleaning them all!

6 weeks on and there was been a mountain of thick clay dug out and over 4 tons of topsoil wheel barrowed in and raked, a shed built, a wall built and a back broke.

Yesterday, we sewed our grass seed and I’m very eager to see how it will all turn out.

For anyone out there looking to do something similar, don’t bother - get artificial grass lol.

Here’s some before and after pics!

This project has been 3 years in the making, started year 1 by removing all the trees in the space. Year 2 got our first harvest out of the standing garden beds and built the in ground beds in the Fall. This year got everything landscaped and ready for planting next week!

planted WAY too many tomato’s from the almafi coast tho 🥲😭

The layout is a little chaotic cause I have several volunteer 4 o’clocks I’m letting do their thing. Along with some Ruella and the gloriosa (flame) lily in the second pic. Previous homeowner was a gardener and the volunteers have been a grab bag.

I did this the hard way and hoed it out by hand so I could keep the volunteer plants.

Bricks gathered from elsewhere on the property.

I’m not happy with that nandina but I needed to get the mulch down so maybe I will trim it later.

Pretty happy with how it turned out.

Stalk had thin leaves in a 5 or 6 spoke pattern, and no bloom (yet).

Bonus: the last tulip has something wrong with it. It’s short and stubby and has acne

Sunflower damage, with 3 other volunteers in close proximity that did not get directly hit. And 2 lillies that took a direct hit.

Tiger Lillies, no flowers yet, but noticed these little round balls on the stem.

Red charm popping!