Flowers

I’ve been trying to figure out how to landscape the front of the house since we moved in, but a gardener I am not. I don’t like bugs, or how messy you have to make areas of the yard to create a garden. 

I like low maintenance plants that are big and lush, with vibrant color. I especially like just clean cut, bright green foliage. 

A couple at our parish gave me hostas three years ago for our old house, and I’ve been threatening to dig them up in the middle of the night for transplanting ever since we moved. They’re gorgeous and it makes me so sad that we had to leave them behind. 

I ran into that couple a few weeks ago and told them how much I miss those hostas and they said “Come get as many as you want! They’re completely overgrown again and we can’t find anyone who wants them.”

Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!

It was a fun family project. Everyone enjoyed helping out. Augustine and Logan dug up hostas, Lewis and I loaded them into boxes, and Elias ran around with a small shovel of dirt most of the time. Levi was a dream baby...he slept the whole time. 

Logan’s disciple Grant and his girlfriend Regina helped us too. Grant knows a lot about gardening so he shared his knowledge with us. 
We got hostas planted all across the front of the house on either side of the steps. We’ll fill in something behind them. Maybe lemon grass because it’s easy, taller, and supposedly repels mosquitoes. 

We put more hostas along the garage in the backyard and it makes a drastic homey difference! We also stuck three hostas in random empty spots. 

They’re in a bit of shock right now, so they won’t look great this year. I can’t wait until next spring when they pop up!