Grow little plants, grow!

Two posts in one day? Gasp!! 

I'm on vacation today (awesomeness), so I get to actually spend some time out in our yard. I'm happy to say that it's coming along slowly but surely. Watching our little baby plants grow has certainly been an effort in patience, which we know I'm short on.

Our landscaper was over yesterday to talk about putting the rest of the landscaping in. He said that everything is coming in great with the exception of a couple plants on the east side of our front lawn that we're going to just sit back and see if they bloom. If not, we'll figure something else out.

We also decided, with his advice, to move our purple ash in the front yard this fall once it goes dormant. When we moved in and had our landscaping installed we didn't have any neighbors, and we didn't know they'd end up staggering the houses (and we're glad they did). So our neighbors house sits closer to the curb than ours. As it turns out, our tree, once it starts growing, will end up messing with their gutters and that's not very neighborly of us to mess with their house. So we're keeping our fingers crossed we can successfully move it to the berm by our sidewalk and move the globe spruce that currently lives there to where the tree currently is.

We also decided to put some boxwood in the front of our house and move our moon shadow euonymus in front of it to create more "heft" in front of our office window.

But getting back to current state. It's been exciting and rewarding watching the yard come in and even though everything is still small and vulnerable, it's wonderful to see green in the backyard. Hopefully by the end of the summer, our neighbors will get their landscaping completed and it will transform our little land of dirt and hay.

While we're still waiting for everything to fully bloom, here's some photos of our yard slowly taking shape.

Looking out onto the yard from our patio

One of our lilacs -- can't wait until these babies produce bigger blooms 

One of our ivory halo dogwood bushes

One of our forsythia bushes. We got to see a little yellow in early spring this year, but it quickly changed to green. 

Our knockout rose bushes and butterfly bush have grown so well in this back corner. It's by far where the most growth has happened this spring.