Posted by: Becca & Kyle

We've been doing some work in our garden over the past few weekends. It's not real big - this is all we have to work with:

We added some plants to provide some color later in the summer and fall, like echinacea, hyssop, asters, daisies, and penstemon. We also updated our soaker hose system. It's on a timer, so everything gets watered automatically. Our timer and manifold:

Some of the 100' of hose in our small garden:

Even our planter barrels are on the soaker hose system.


A couple of years ago, we built a privacy wall for our patio from which we could hang hanging baskets. Last year, the bastards (HOA) cut it down and replaced it with a very nice, low plastic wall. We built a planter box to add a little height to the wall and provide another place for plants:

It gets watered automatically, too:




We filled it with geraniums and red basil:


We also got some petunias, asiatic lilies, bacopa, and calibrachoa,

which we put in some pots for our stoop:



The finished product:

The garden frog back in the garden after a winter inside: