These little guys are getting bigger!

Who knew that squash have such pretty flowers?

Okay and the next update isn’t so much a garden update as it is a front flower bed update.  When we first moved in,  I was thrilled that we had Azaleas or what I thought were azaleas.  After a couple of months,  I decided that they were not “thriving” in their location and pulled them up.  I am what you could call an impatient gardener.  In retrospect I realize that I should have just moved them instead of declaring them unfit and throwing them away.   In their place, we planted gardenias.  I love gardenias.  They smell so wonderful!  I was starting to get sad about my gardenias about a month ago until a couple of people reassured me that it wasn’t time for them to bloom yet.  So I have been watering them every other day, fertilizing them, telling them how much I love them and waiting.

Side note:  My husband and I are new homeowners.  We have never planted our own flowers, bushes, vegetables or anything that didn’t fit into a pot or a container.  Every time something new blooms whether wildflower or not, I feel like it is my birthday.  I have waited my whole life to have my very own yard and I am loving this process.  So if I seem way too excited about my flowers or my garden, it is because I am.

Back to my point, Monday my first gardenia bloomed!