I am recovering from another busy weekend! What about you? I’m still in a lot of pain from my back, makes thing a bit hard when you have much to do! Did manage to get D to do most of my planting for me!! He’s my hero! We worked on it off and on all weekend! We’ve planted Oleander, Hibiscus, Braided Hibiscus, Mandeville, Ferns, and courtesy of my great, wonderful sister, two huge banana trees (thanks sis ) ! Can’t wait to see them grow!!

D had some digging up to do. He had actually killed three Oleander bushes (kind of hard since Oleander is quite hardy, but he managed! ). We replaced those that were dead and then he had to dig up two large bushes of Pampas Grass (they scratch you when you walk by! ), we planted the banana trees in their place.

Working hard!! He’s so sore, he’s not use to manual labor!

This little area off our patio was very crowded with Pampas Grass that actually covered up the cute fountain! D dug the Pampas Grass up (again every time you walked by it would scratch you, hate that stuff!) and we placed the potted Hibiscus in it’s place. Nice little spot now! Here’s a few photos of our work:

The bunny’s name is Theodore by the way!

More plants on the patio.

Just one of our Hibiscus blooms!!

Fern’s added by hot tub for tropical feel. See our new little friend? His name is Sebastian!

The Oleander is planted behind the hot tub, it’s hard to see in this photo. I’ll wait till it’s blooming really good and take a photo then!

So at least we got that stuff done this weekend, even though I wasn’t able to help much it feels good to have that checked off our to-do list. What did you do this weekend?

Have a great week!!