East Side Story

Ever since I can remember my family has had a spring tradition. Both my mother and my father are avid gardeners. My mother would load us up on a beautiful day in June take us to P&M gardens and spend more money they Gordon would probablly have liked on plants. Additionaly my father has always had a beautiful hedge of bleeding hearts in his yard.

Now that it has reached 60 degrees here in New Hampshire my gardening "genes" have set in. I went to home depot and picked up some ideas for my new garden beds. Last summer my wonderful husband, brother-in-law and father-in-law put in a big blue stone patio in our backyard. It has a fire pit in the center and lots of room for flower beds around it. I will put lots of pictures up once the snow all melts. So here are some of my purchases for the beds near the patio

Ranunculus

This variety of flowers is perennial down in the south but here in new england it only grows as an annual. It was also in my wedding boutique.

Clematis

I have never grown this variety of flower. They are climbing vining flowers that have blooms the size of dinner plates. I am very excited to try my luck at them.

And this is the trellis I bought to train them on. It will look beautiful

Lastly I couldnt resist this urn, I actually bought two of them. The clean lines and yellow tint will look amazing with the blue of the patio. I am not sure what to plant in them yet. Ideas?

So that is it for now. I havent even started at the green houses yet. I have to wait till at least end of May to go pick out flowers there. I blame my parents for this obsession.