Yellow Rose Today

Lovely Yellow Canna and Elephant Ear

Our neglected garden is hanging in there! LOL Well to surprise us our newest yellow Canna bloomed, we've been waiting for it all season and here it is! So pretty!

Gerard's mother gave us some baby Elephant Ears and WOW is it taking off!
Hopefully with the weather cooling off soon we can get our garden in the ground!

Spa Tub is IN

Well the other tub/shower we put in when I was cleaning it I found CRACKS so it had to come out and be returned. So then we decided to get the spa tub since it was the same price and well...better! LOL
First some mortar and then 4mm plastic over the top (the manual specified to do that) to support the tub.

Proof that I was able help him get the tub in...yup it's a miracle! LOL Usually they are too heavy for me but this one was easier because it's a drop in without an apron.

It then needed more mortar to support it.

Gerard then built the last stringer. It's all hooked up now and after the cement and mortar dries we can test it and then tile.

Getting rid of the Decorative Wall

Heehee we wanted to do that since we first saw the house! Yay more room!

Bathroom Renovation

Well we got that wall out, and we got a bigger door for the bathroom too since the old one was dinky.

With help from our good friend Jon (who is a plumber) we got the tub and shower surround in as well as the new shower set (don't know what it's called)! It couldn't have been done without Jon's help!!! THANK YOU!!!

Demo for Guest Bathroom!!!

Woo Hoo ripping out the wall closet that took up too much space in the bathroom!

See? Tall people would knock their knees on it!

You see that hole in the wall? Yeah you guessed it there was a cutting board mounted over it with the toilet paper roll attached...needless to say we removed it and mounted the TP in a better place!

The shower didn't work so we have to tear it out fix the plumbing...also the tub is rusted.

Hee hee all too happy to rip the silly space stealing closet out!

Yup proof of me doing some work too!
P.S. for demo that $5 pry bar is PRICELESS

We Got The KEYS!!! June 19th!!!

Our Dream!
A Home of our Own in the beautiful Desert that we get to fix up!!!

Our New Home!!!!!

The Kitchen

The Dining Room

Looking from the Dining Room to the Front Door

Living Room

The Fireplace

Looking from the Front Door to the Dining Room and out to the Back Yard

Our huge Back Yard!!! It's 60'D x 95'W

Storage Shed (may be a future workshop or outdoor room depends on what we dream up and do)

Pretty Views

His Royal Highness

Presenting His Royal Highness presiding over the Royal Gardens atop his Royal Passionflower Perch

Stunning Hollyhock

The red hollyhock in the corner looked extra beautiful to me this morning!

Most of the cannas are blooming now and it's getting hot out, so it's turning summer in my garden! LOL

May Flowers

Cannas

...and dwarf sunflower

Society Garlic and yellow daylily 'Bitsy'

Red Rose with lots around it

Cosmos

Guara

What's New?

Well...this hollyhock is HUGE and finally blooming!

Also a surprise is the double flower in the dark red shade! We love it!

Another pretty pink one started blooming too!

The canna and dwarf sunflower are really getting going!

And take a wild guess what happened when we visited Lowe's...yup we bought 2 more passionflowers! LOL Well they were the smaller lower cost ones and different varieties! How could we resist? I will say we were very good and didn't buy the $25 clematis that was SO PRETTY and so tempting!!! I mean it's not everyday you see clematis in the desert! Wow this is how bad it is...I kinda wish we had bought it! HAHAHA

OH and 'Lavender Lady' has a fruit growing! I just read the article linked to the name below and I guess we will soon see exactly what specimen this is...bummer about the fruit being hollow though.
These two are:
Passiflora 'Lavender Lady'
Passiflora 'Blue Bouquet'

Our first Canna to bloom! Yeay! And a dwarf sunflower!

A good photo of the color of my nice dark red hollyhock!

Tea in the Garden!

Spring Freestyle

Lots of flowers reseeded themselves like the cosmos, bachelor buttons, marigolds, and petunias!

Wish you could smell the honeysuckle!

Canna getting ready to bloom as well as a dwarf sunflower that reseeded itself.

A scarlet runner been that reseeded! I was surprised to see it today!

I absolutely love the look of this dark red hollyhock and even more so surrounded by bachelor buttons that came back on their own!

There have been a few colors of bachelor buttons that weren't around last year I love when that happens! I like the pink and white combo.

This one is a dark purple although it's looking more blueish in photos.

My fave pink wave petunia that reseeded. In this pot is also a calabrachoa that wintered over(you have to look very closely to see the small light pink flowers), and a strawberry.

I loved the way this looked with the cannas starting to get big and the wave petunias growing in it, and then the marigolds growing into the petunias. Isn't that one of the prettiest marigolds? I love the leaves so lacy and the flowers are very small. There is a sea of these marigolds that reseeded!

My spot in the garden has a pretty red mandevilla blooming and my geraniums that haven't stopped all winter!

This is the veiw of the hollyhock and bachelor buttons from the swing.

I can also see these clematis flowers dangling from the swing...so cute! I love how the bud looks like a heart and when they open is the most cutest bell ever!

Pretty Spring Flowers

We've had tons of ladybugs in our garden this year they love the bachelor buttons and cosmos the most!

Hummingbird

New Passionflower

Walking through Lowe's we found this beautiful Passiflora 'Victoria' and couldn't resist!!!

Shot focused on a bud.

Shot focused on flower.

Strawberries

Strawberries picked fresh from our garden!