Tulips

I'm super stoked about my most recent "home improvement" project. For the low low price of $3.97, I hope I made a decent little improvement to our humble abode. The frugal side of me is excited to have re-used some potting soil from failed attempts this past spring, the anti-nesting side of me is glad to have thrown out some old flower pots, and I filled in some bare spots in my rock area by simply moving some rocks from one place to another. The hubs and I tried planting tulip bulbs last fall, but we put them in pots so they never took a good rooting and then he squirrels ate them this spring.

Lucy even helped.

See? She's helping.

I cleared some rocks out of the spaces between the shrubs (see those ugly shrubs above?? yuck!)surrounding our home and stuck some tulip bulbs in the ground. This is awesome because, when the hubs comes back, there will hopefully be some flowers blooming around the house to make it feel "homey"....not "homie," and I won't have to do a thing! Well...water them...but that's easy! Early May is too harsh here in CO to be planting annual flowers, so I'm hoping my early-blooming tulip bubls will do the trick!


...before....

 See that flower pot on the left up there??? I was throwing those out anyways because they're dry-rotted from our great CO sunshine. So, I dumped out the potting soil on top of my tulip bulbs. Then I drowned the bulbs and went inside.

In May, there should be flowers here!

...and here!
Ignore the green thing sticking out, I wanted to salvage a living stem
just to see if it ends up being a flower.

I'm also stoked that ...wait...let me back up. This spring, I grew some sweet pea flowers from seeds. I love growing from seeds, for a 99cent investment, you get the satisfaction of really growing some beautiful things yourself! And did I mention it's only 99 cents for a pack of seeds? Anyways, one of these sweet pea plants actually sprouted flowers plus an entire pea pod this year! So I busted out the seeds....without taking any stinking pictures to prove it, figures...and I'm going to plant the seeds next year. So I'll get back with you in June to let you know if my 99 cent investment has yielded two "crops."