Gardening

This spring I had decided I was going to start to work in my front yard to try to get it to look half way decent. I have these ugly rocks in my yard that I have hated since we moved in, so I start to rake them up into a pile. I have no idea how I am going to get rid of them all together, but for now this well have to do. It took me a while to get this one area cleaned up and by this time it was the begining of summer and it was starting to get hot. I than decided that I would go get some flowers to put in this area, so off to wal-mart I went with my kids and picked up a bunch of flowers. Now the task of planeting them! Well I kept going back for more and I would drag my kids along with me and they are like oh no mom not again!! It was almost like an obsession. Than my husband started buying me these cool garden tools that are lite weight! He just bought me a couple more just the other day!! One problem I have with getting the flowers is I alway forget which ones come back year after year. I always think it is annual, but I know that it is perennials that come back year after year. Well I did pick up the annuals the first time around and than when I went back several times is when I got the perennials. My favorite color is purple and that is what I got a lot of is different colors of purple flowers. I also got other colors like pink, white, red, and yellow, but mostly they are purple! This little flower garden has been my sanctuary. Now it is fall and the leaves are falling off the peach tree and we had our first cold spell and snow dusting that has left a few of the plants with frost bite. Yesterday was a beautiful day as is today and I decided to start raking some of the leaves up. I got a lot of them raked up the only problem is I know I will have more because there are still leaves on the tree. As I was raking to I would bump into the tree and more leaves would fall. I gave up after a while, but it looks a little better where my flowers are. My yard still needs a lot of work and it is going to take me a long time to get it to what I want it to be. I would like to cut down the peach tree get rid of all the rocks and plant a lot of plants and flowers. I would like to get a different tree as well. I want a lot of lilac and butterfly bushes, honeysuckle and snow ball plants are great too! What really nags me is my neighbor has an elm tree which I hate those trees and those darn seeds that blow into my yard and plant themselves. I have a few that I keep cuting but they keep growing back. I have asked my husband to dig them up, but he says the roots are never ending, so I am going to try what a friend suggested was to take boiling water add salt and pour into where the trees are and it will kill the roots! I will probably go out later today and try to do some more work while the weather is perfect!