Grow . . . Please Grow. . .

 We hope to have a nice looking yard this year. We already planted some St Augustine grass and it is doing well.

We bought plants for our front yard today and my HD put them all in the ground.

These are Lantana, the left one is camara Irene and the right one is mont Trailing White.

More Lantana, the left is new gold and the right is another camara Irene.

Here, in the middle,  we have a Chinese rose bush (don't know the proper name) that we have carried from house to house for years. It is a tough one to survive all we have put it through. In the back pots is purple Jew and the front three are mother in law tongues.

These shrubs came with the house and have not done well but new growth is coming out so perhaps this year will do better.

I wanted to add some color to the shrubs so we picked up these Photini to put in the middle of the others.

Two more of our rose bushes. You can probably tell I am not a "plant person" and do not know the names of many of them. Mom used to give me house plants and send along a sympathy card with them, 'cause she felt sorry for them.

But my HD is very good with plants so they might just survive!!

We even had a purple bloom on one of the iris we moved last year!

We want to have a hedge across the front but not into the city easement so we started out with just these two.

They are Holly Yaupon Dwarf shrubs and really pretty. We will have to add more a little at a time.