The weather was great this weekend. I mowed the lawn for the first time this season and pulled weeds.

I enlarged one of the flower beds a little to give us some planting space in the sun. We have a large yard but a lot of trees too, so we don’t have many sunny spots in which to plant. I put in a couple of roses, a Martha Gonzales and a Mutabilis, in the new bed along with some irises that should have been in the ground long ago. We’ve had the roses over a year planted in some large containers.

I also changed up the beds on either side of the steps leading up to the front porch. We did have a row of salvia greggii on the left and a large artemesia on the right. I took out the artemesia and moved a couple of the salvias into its place. Then I slipped a second Mutabilis in between the remaining salvias. It looks more balanced now and maybe we will have some flowers through the summer from the rose.

I mulched both beds with pine straw that I picked up at Mom and Dads house last weekend.