A Birthday Garden

My mom came over on Saturday and gave me the coolest birthday gift.

I used to have a nice-ish garden, nothing fancy, but not so overgrown and weedy as it has been this last year. Then I got pregnant. There was definitely no 9 months pregnant gardening happening last year, and well this year I’ve just been too lazy busy.

This year for my birthday, my mom gave me a beautiful garden.

Here is a picture from a few weeks ago.
See the overgrown weeds and under watered plants.
These are the post renovation photos, taken from my phone 🙂

My mom helped us to clear the walk way that had been slightly grown over.

She bought me solar butterflies, solar lights, and… 15 silk flowers from the dollar store. Ingenious! We also made a trip to the home improvement store and purchased new borders.

She had an idea to put in a garden on the right side of the house, where the garbage cans used to live. On this side my mom gave us solar butterflies, solar lights, a solar sunflower plant and some more of the silk flowers. She also transplanted some of the live plants we hadn’t killed yet. (All the green plants are alive)

We moved the fake, plastic faux stones from the old garden to the tree, and added solar butterflies and solar lights.

I can’t believe how great the silk flowers look! She wanted to buy me real flowers, but knew I would forget to water them and they would die, ha! This was an awesome alternative.

It’s so exciting to come home to a pretty front yard. I love it!