Beautiful Blooms

When we moved into our house we had this dreadful mailbox, it looked like a giant green rubbermaid box. To make matters worse it was surrounded by some ugly shrub that just climbed over the bottom and had no personality at all. Although the curb appeal on our house was far from screaming overhaul this was one easy item we knew we wanted to tackle. It's not a close up of the mailbox but you can get the idea from these pictures that I just came across and love, so much fun, us playing in the front yard of our new house.

Anyway, about a year ago, Mike, his Dad and brother tackled the first part of the equation. Getting rid of the horrible green mailbox. We replaced it with a much nicer mailbox that was much more our style. It was my job to then figure out what we should plant around the mailbox. I really did try to look into options and my mom kept bringing me over this perennial book to read and look at, although it's hard to look at it and then go to the store and say I want these. So the space has sat vacant for over a year now, just dirt. Still an upgrade from before but none the less unfinished, until today that is.

We went back to our favorite nursery, although we have been there before and today we really looked around and decided on a plan of action. Now if only I could remember the names of the flowers we got. I do know we got a beautiful clematis for next to the mailbox. Through a lot of sweat, all Mike's, not mine, he planted this amazing garden for us today. We could not be any happier with the way it turned out! Absolutely love it. And now every time we come home we get to look at this beautiful garden when we pull up.