Recently I looked at pictures of my new house–just while searching for another picture. Here’s my home back in November when I put a contingency contract on it and was waiting for my Maine home to sell.
Here it is in late December when I closed on this new home and was waiting for my furniture to come from Maine. The lawn is sodded, but the Centipede grass was dormant. It will do that again this winter.
I took this picture the other day–with the new Crape Myrtle in place of the Willow Oak planted by the developer. Look at the size of the azaleas and hollies out front now. They are thriving. I’ve worked so hard on the grass with hand weeding and fertilizing and watering–and it shows. It’s now like a deep carpet in most places.
And you can’t see them from the street yet, but the 20 little Dwarf Mexican Petunias are thriving, growing, and starting to bloom. This morning three more had flowers that had opened.
They are all the pretty violet/blue I wanted.
It is a bit cooler here these past few days. And we’ve had good rain, but I’m going out to water the new Crape Myrtle now as it does not have a developed root system yet.
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