I thought I'd share some of my garden photos too. We've been working on our garden for quite a few years and it's finally to the point where we have mostly perenials, much less work that way :) It's always a work in progress. My 15 yo has developed a love of gardening and is constantly coming up with more ideas (sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes it's not ;) ) I'm going to add a few posts with pictures.

Here is the front of the house
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a bit of a closer view
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closeups of some of the flowers out in front
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Here is a view from our back window upstairs so you can kind of see the layout

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here's a view when you come out the back door
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and here are some closeups of some of the flowers in the back
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What a lovely garden! Some of those flower pictures could be great postcards. I also love your house:)

OMG those are Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE them!

Love Val

Thanks so much :D I got a new camera a couple of months ago and I'm really enjoying taking pictures with it. Now if I could just get my kids to hold still so I could get some good shots of them ;)

GORGEOUS!!! I love the back yard!!

Really beautiful!! Your photos are so inspiring because I have been feeling so down about how my yard looks and feeling so just defeated about it. Now I feel like I have the inspiration I need to do some more work on it!!

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Your backyard looks so peaceful. The perfect sanctuary[sp?]~
:)

Wow, your gardens are beautiful. I agree with the other mama who said the back yard looks peaceful.

Thanks so much for all your sweet comments :)

I love your backyard, it looks great. And those flowers are gorgeous.

Gorgous!! That back yard is amazing - looks great and soooooooo peaceful.
Thanks for sharing! :)