Wednesday, June 18, 2008

our backyard

This is a photo of our backyard, highlighting Toby's first garden. In it, he planted about 9 tomato plants and 3 pepper plants. (Please feel free to email me your favorite salsa recipes in about 2 months.) :-) Toby also planted some winter squash and yellow (crookneck?) squash along the fence. Our soil is pretty dry and mostly clay past the first few inches, so it will be interesting to see if our plants survive the season.


Toby built our compost bin, which will reside in the FAR back corner of the yard and will hopefully create the fertilizer for our plants.

Our first tomotoes!



Lovely Lavender

Darling Daisies



Nameless Beauty???

Does anyone know what this plant is??? It's a vine-like plant that grows up our back porch and produces the most beautiful blossoms. We also have two other ones like this back by our storage garage. You can see part of one in the photo below on the left.

Bathing Beauty :)

3 comments:

Laurie Jastifer said...

We have the same plant in our yard Andrea!!!! I am not sure what it is but I do know that it is VERY expensive. I saw them at a greenhouse here for $250!! We almost cut it down before it bloomed too....that would have been a big mistake! Love the backyard and garden. We planted one as well with lot of dill and cucumbers for my pickles!!;) Wish that you were here to do them with me:O) miss ya!

Cyndi Coates said...

it is a clematis plant:) your yard looks great and Toby's garden and compost shed are pretty impressive.
Yor really have a nice home!!!!
love and miss you!!!

Uncle John said...

It's a clematis. We put one in just like it a couple of years ago. Not sure what type ( name ) it is though. My memory is shorter than my hair.