confession...

ok, let me start out by saying - i warned you! i told you i had a black thumb, remember? and even tho it looked promising.....it's gotten totally out of hand! ~lmao~


u may have spotted it in this pic that was included in my last post....




i tried to crop it out, but u can see it right behind jaden's head



please don't gasp or call me names when u view this next pic.....



i'm serious, it's pretty embarrassing!



AHHHHHHH!

yeah, yeah....i know - weeding is required when planting a flower bed!
we call this our "weed bed" ~lol~

but we have gotten this poppy bloom and about 5 other red ones, and 2 white ones (the peony & tiger lily are blooming in other spots in our yard)

and we got these too...

from the seed/bulb packets we saved (so glad i did that!), it looks like this is a pinwheel? or maybe a cosmo? it literally just opened this morning, and it looks like the petals might unroll some more....so we'll see...


and this, a gladiolus....several of these are about to pop...


we also have some cute little wild blooms here & there...


and at least someone enjoys the madness of our "weed bed".....we see TONS of these tiny dragonflies there every morning...


so i guess my brilliant idea of planting a TON of bulbs/seeds all over the bed....hoping it would fill up the whole bed with flowers, and NOT weeds was wrong! duh, right?!

i still have to say, the girls have gotten such a thrill at not only spotting new blooms each day, but at also finding the dragonflies, butterflies, ants, spiders & other bugs that are living there.....they don't mind the weeds

i know we'll get more blooms here & there (y can't they all pop out at the same time? ~lol~), but not enough to make it look pretty with all the weeds & grass there too....i worked a little bit last night at pulling/cutting down the big obvious weeds, but i'm SO BAD at identifying the difference between weeds & possible flowers

i gave my mom a preview of this post this morning & she offered to help.....sounds like crab grass is my main culprit (so that's what it looks like?!) and evidentially, it can smother the flowers out.....so she's coming over tomorrow eve to help me try and get in there & get rid of as much as we can....she's so sweet! ;0) thx ma!!!



whew! glad i got that off my chest! ~lmao~