Now for the final touches

 I am so happy with how this garden is turning out.

It certainly has the feel of a relaxing and peaceful space to retreat to.

I've been working on some fun little decorations and soon will be working on my fairy garden area.

For now ....here are a few things I have done

Lady bugs and 

Bumble bees for the tic tac toe stepping stone

Ladies of the garden for my strawberry towers. Made from recycled bottles, flower pots and stuff we had on hand. These will be the toppers for my topsy turvy towers.

Updated pic of how well roses are doing.

More to come soon. Working on a trellis from pallets that will go behind my bench and a few more things. And I saw a few buds just starting on my rose tree!!

Stepping stones and pond

 I got alot accomplished this past weekend. All of my roses are now planted!

Tons of blooms starting to open!

Got stepping stones and rock pathway in.

View of pond and bench

Front entrance view

Here are a few roses that have bloomed....I will have more to post soon!

Belinda's Blush

Iceberg

                               Artic Blue

                               Pond

Getting some roses!

 Last weekend I took a little break from my rose garden to give a couple of my other flower beds some much needed TLC.

Meanwhile.... I have a TON of rose buds and a few have started to open. I think by this coming weekend I will have several more.

Most interesting to me is Caribia....it had a bud when I planted it and was first to bloom. It was so pretty....but the blooms that opened this week..Wow!! All I can figure is the compost along with Neptunes fish oil made this change.

Here are the two pics...lighter peach was the first and this breath taking coral is now.....

Royal Kate (pink) and iceberg (white) have blooms and there will be more soon!

My last 6 rose bushes arrived, finally. All bare root. That will be what I am doing next....planting those. Then....I should be putting in my stepping stones and gravel pathway this weekend! 

Yeah for good weather on my days off!

Another pic of Royal Kate more fully open!

Made some good progress!

 I was able to get quite a bit done on Sunday.

Here is where I left it....

Got the middle island done and the back portion. Have a little bit more just in front of the pond area and the area you can't see in this pic to the right (which is where my bench is located). Soon I'll be able to place stepping stones and gravel for the walking path.

Slow and steady

 So I haven't done too much on my rose garden in a couple of weeks. Two weekends ago was cold and rainy and last weekend we got to camp for the first time in 2 years! Felt so good to finally have a little normalcy after this past year of the Covid pandemic.

I just finished painting my last stepping stone. Now just have to seal them.

Fall and winter

Was my hubby's idea to represent all 4 seasons....i loved that idea...we do live in New England!

I did a scene that reminds me of camping. I was originally going to do a tent and camp fire but I fell in love with this scene and it reminds me so much of hiking and camping.

Well....hopefully I can get out there and get more done on my garden today. Yesterday I just didn't have much energy for some reason. This weekend is Beautiful!

Weekend In

So this long Memorial Day weekend has not turned out to be an outdoor weekend as for weather.

I did manage to pick up some flowers to make a couple hanging pots.

I have all but 4 stepping stones painted now and I've been sealing them so from that perspective I have been productive.

I can't complain about rain, last year we were in drought status and until this much needed rain came, we were headed back into that status again.

I have had some nibbles on a few of my roses from our rabbits or deer or both. I'll have to re-apply but I got some organic Repel All spray which I have used in my garden in the past and works well. I also fertilized all the roses I have so far with Neptune's organic fish fertilizer. The remainder of this week looks sunny and next weekend hot and humid. I'm hoping it will just cause my roses to grow like crazy.

 Caribia is the first rose bush to bloom, can't wait to see it open!

Here's some stepping stones I have finished.

More progress

 So I got stepping stones 2&3 painted this weekend!

Also got to another section of the garden. Certainly can't say it's finished but it's definately coming along.

AND I got my topsy turvy strawberry towers put up....just need to find a topper for each of them

Still lots more to go and anxiously waiting to get some roses. I have 6 more bushes coming this week.