A few days work.

After getting snow earlier in the week, the weather warmed up this weekend.  Fingers crossed, but I think winter might be over.  We took the opportunity to get some yard work done.  We ordered a bunch of plants, and got a few more from some friends.  I didn't take pictures of everything, because at this point most of what we planted just looks like little twiggy things.  We planted 6 blackberries, a blueberry bush, a lilac bush, 2 bridal veil bushes with 2 more still to go in, a crepe myrtle sucker that may or may not develop, and a dwarf fruit orchard consisting of: 2 cherry trees, 2 apricot trees, 2 plum trees, and a peach tree.  It's completely unimpressive right now, but in 5 years or so it should be looking great.

Check out that sweet orchard.  Now we just have to keep it alive for 2-5 years until we get fruit.

This is the lilac bush.  We're going to grow it in the pot for a while and then transplant it between the upper garden bed and the log stepping path.

I'm in the process of placing stump rounds as stepping stone.  This is leading into the backyard

This leads from the covered patio onto the brick patio.  Ignore the cardboard on the left.  We're smothering out a little grass to complete the space for the herb garden.

Finally found a use for the drainage rock that came out when we put a brick border around the patio.  This is between the raised beds for our vegetable garden.