It's done! Sort of. 😅

As I sit here typing I am listening to the sound of thunder and rain, and the slow breathing of a sick little girl.  There is so much peace in that.  I need to remember to slow down more often and feel the peace I find in the life I chose.  I let myself get too busy doing all the things that I lose sight of what I really want, to be with my kids and my plants.  

This update was supposed to come weeks ago, but the planting party I planned was rained out and some health challenges have forced me to slow down.  I've finally finished the front yard though!  Sort of.  I have the frame work down and while I will be adding more it will be more slowly.  I do want to add more flowers, of course.  As the tree guilds grow I will add plants as needed.

My bottom berm has garlic, raspberries, and black berries.  I want to add some flowers to it. In the back is a fruit tree with flowers planted underneath.

Here we have two more fruit trees and between them a willow tree.  Under the fruit trees I have flowers, mint, and horehound planted.  The horehound isn't happy, but I'm hoping it will pull through.  I have tried twice to seed clover, but the birds keep eating the seeds.  I'll have to start a bunch inside and then move it outside.

My top berm has a profusion of sunflowers re-seeded, with the help of birds, from last years sunflowers.  I also planted 4 honey berry bushes, and two forsythia bushes.  I would like to add some herbs and low growing flowers in between the bushes.  You can't see it, but my rose bush is very happy.  I have some rose buds getting ready to bloom.  Under the rose bush I have creeping mint, lupine, nasturtium, and strawberry mint. Along the wall of the house I have a sage bush, three lilacs, one full sized and two dwarf boomerangs, and two mountain bluebeard bushes.

As you can tell, there is still a lot of open space that I need to plant, but a lot of that will be taken up as the trees grow because the guilds will grow with them.  I'll add a little more here and there, but for now It's time to move to the back and get started there.  I have four more dwarf fruit trees on the way and I'm going to the nursery this week to buy four semi dwarf.  Our goal is to plant every available space with food and flowers.