My Herb Garden

I love to Garden, and had a nice little garden started in Texas. Out here it has been a challenge to get my garden going. The nice thing is, about half our backyard is a rock garden area. So putting in a raised garden bed was fairly easy. We just had to rake aside some of the gravel, and build our bed. Matt was wonderful in helping me with this (since I hurt my back, which is almost good as new now). The kids had a blast with this too...any excuse to get dirty, right? Cora got out her watering can, and helped me to water my plants. So now I have a little garden going, and it looks so happy. We planted some Rosemary, Chives, Thyme, Basil, Parsley, and Strawberries (this was for Cora, she loves, loves, loves strawberries!). We have also planted some other plants around the yard. I have a pergola type structure that is built over our patio, so I planted some Honeysuckle on the ends in hopes they will grow well and twine up throughout the pergola. On the ends of our grass I put in some Cannas (?), which grow so effortlessly and multiply like crazy. I also put in a corner flower bed by our patio with some fountain grass, primrose and mexican heather. We should be out here for 3 or 4 years, so I should be able to see my gardens blossom and mature. I love large, rambling gardens...we will see how this desert climate is on my plants. I tried to steer towards drought resistant plants, and have been observant of plants that seem to do well here in other's gardens. We are slowly adding more green and color to our desert oasis. We plan to put in a much larger vegitable garden next. We are all very excited for that!