Dreaming Of Spring

Even though it may not seem like it

to most of us...

spring is just around the corner.

It won't be long until our gardens

show signs of life.

Some of you are already enjoying

spring blossoms and flowers

but for the rest of us

we'll have to wait a bit longer.

Last spring I started work on our

shade garden

and this fall I planted

50 daffodil bulbs.

I hope they survived the dry winter.

I watered yesterday.

I have dreams of one day having

a garden similar to the garden

I planted in the city.

I shared this garden with you when

I first started blogging.

I thought I'd share it with you again.

We had built a new porch on our old home 

in the summer of 2003 and in the fall 

we put up the picket fence and arbor.

I planted the garden that fall.

This was the garden's first spring.

Above is the little garden shed we built

at the back of our old house. 

To the right..out of the picture is our

screened porch on the back of the house.

Hubby eventually built a picket fence

here and I planted a little garden

and laid pavers.

We moved before we built 

window boxes.

Flowering shrubs at the back of the old house.

We have packed that pile of rocks

3 times 

and now they 

reside here on the farm 

along with a bunch more we dug

up from the foundation that was under

the old barn. 

I framed one garden bed with some of the 

larger stones but I have more

gardens to do.

Poor hubby ;)

Hubby built my 'old' wheel barrow

out of old parts and wood.

I still have it but it's seen better days.

You can see a little bit of the 

window boxes hubby made for me

on the front of the house.

Eventually this front garden

was filled with 

David Austin old fashioned roses

that climbed over the arbor 

and the end of the porch

and many other old 

fashioned flowers.

Some survived the Kansas heat

some didn't. 

Now I'm starting all over here on the farm.

I doubt my garden will be as full as

this became but that's ok.

I'll enjoy it anyway.

I hope you enjoyed this repeat tour

of our old gardens.

Have a wonderful weekend

:)