Not so great a weekend!

Actually my pre-weekend started on Friday with getting sick, fever and all. I had great hopes of doing the first "plant out" of winter sowing containers this weekend. I have lots of babies needing to start their lives in the new beds I've been working on. But it was not meant to be as we have had torrential rains. It rained all day Friday, Saturday and now it looks like Sunday and Monday will be a bust for planting out. At least with all this rain, I didn't feel so guilty about not working out in the garden and staying in bed sick for two days. I'm sure Monday will be spent still lounging around trying to recoup. One good thing about the rain, I know all my wonderful perennials and hydrangeas are loving this kind of weather.

I have so many things I need/want to do in my gardens. My DH is a "lawns are meant for grass" fanatic so my gardening projects are limited to three main areas at present (I do have a sneaky way of "stealing" more areas in mind and am always expanding the current areas I have ... sometimes only a few inches every season and sometimes as much as a foot or more .... he never notices, at least not yet. Kinda like the story of the frog being put into a pot of cold water on the stove and heated up gradually.... he doesn't realize until it's too late).

One of my gardening areas is a shady side of our home. I have three small shade beds beside the house (where the steps go up onto the front porch). Two of those beds have been there for a couple of years with a large yew shrub in between them. We recently had a carport built over the driveway right beside those beds. One of the workmen fell off the new metal roofing while working on that carport back in February. He fell right into the yew. Fortunately he wasn't hurt, but the yew was beyond saving. Anyway, DH recently went on a four day training seminar trip for his work and during that time, I added a bed between the two existing ones (where the yew once lived). He hasn't said a word about the new bed so am not sure if he hasn't noticed or chose to ignore it. LOL...... Photos are of the three beds just about three weeks ago when I first added the new bed in the middle. I am in the process of adding and taking out plants to fit into my ideas of what I want in this shade area. I'm sure it will change a lot before I am happy with it. The first bed toward the steps actually only has potted plants sitting in it for the moment, except for the wood poppy and the fern. I have to make some decisions on plants for that bed soon.