**I meant to get this post out yesterday morning, but I got obsessed with trying to locate the correct photo that inspired my front yard, and spent far too much of my day on that!**
Let me start by saying I am pretty tickled with just how well the hydrangeas in my front yard are doing this year.
I planted them three summers ago, after I had the picket fence put in, and we got it all painted white, and they didn't. do. anything.
Nope.
They didn't grow even so much as an inch, and the blooms that some of them had when I bought them never bloomed again.
I thought maybe it was too much sun, or my soil. (I am not a green thumb gal.)
My son in law (who is a green thumb guy!) told me they would just take a few summers, and would most likely go gangbusters (I'm paraphrasing here. He's in his 30's and does't use words like gangbusters) in about three summers.
So I crossed my fingers, and I waited.
Ohmygosh, was he ever right! This year my hydrangeas are spilling over and through my fence, just as I had pictured in my mind's eye since the day I planted them.
I was thinking about the photo that I had found in a magazine, or online...somewhere...had inspired the entire front yard. (Actually the entire front of my house, including paint colors...) I looked all through my Pinterest boards trying to find the photo, but it seems to be totally missing. That got me looking through my own photos, because I have a habit of taking pictures of magazine pages to save ideas.
Anyway, I finally found this picture of a picture. (Yes, it's all grainy and kinda weird looking, because I took a picture of my computer screen.) To be completely honest, I am only about half sure this was the picture I was so excited about, but it does have the up-down-dog-ear-fence-board in the fence. Also, I may need to start taking some ginko for my memory, because if this is the correct photo, the flowers in this photo look more like roses to me!
Oh well, I personally prefer the hydrangeas. (And, as I said, maybe this isn't the picture I was basing my landscape off of.) Anyway you look at it, my sweet little diamond-in-the-rough-cottage has come a long, long way, don'tcha think?
