Can't escape my landscaping

So, with me blogging away about my landscaping efforts, you're probably on tenterhooks waiting to see some proof, right? Well, I'm gonna show you anyway. Today I put three, count'em, three azaleas into the bed where I hacked down my hollies. (Click on this picture to see the full-size image.)


To the left of the window is an azalea that was there when I bought the house (though I didn't know it till it bloomed the following spring). It could only be seen from the front door, because the entire space between the two junipers was filled with the two hollies, which were at least as tall as the juniper on the right. The white blob in front of the azalea is one of the holly stumps; the other is a ways to the right of the azalea. (The other white blob is the sewer line cleanout.) Why anyone would put in a foundation plant you couldn't see from the front is beyond me. I'm hoping that azalea will grow better now that it's going to get a little more light.

The small plants are a hydrangea (bottom left) and the three azaleas I planted today. With any luck, next year I'll have some lovely pink and white blooms.

And here's the planter next to the garage door. There used to be another holly in there. Now it's home to some English ivy, and two kinds of pansies that are doing fantastically well considering the recent heat; I expected they'd be all dried up by now. In the box set across the planter is salvia, and on the right side of the planter are three daylilies still in pots.


Two more azaleas await planting, if I can just decide where to put them.