One of the things I love about living in an older home is that I get to enjoy the flowers and trees that were planted by previous tenants.
There is a pretty little rose bush right in the front yard. Unfortunately, I took too long to get a picture of the roses so a lot of the blooms are old and dry, but still beautiful in their own right. I've always liked roses. Years ago I had gotten a rose bush for my birthday that was planted at our house in Nampa. It never had a chance to bloom and was unable to survive being accidentally trampled.
I love that we have big shade trees in the front yard. Our back yard has a big shade tree too, but the yard part in the back is less than to be desired. With having such big trees they are a pain in the spring and fall to clean up after. I guess that's one good this about the wind here is that the seeds and leaves are usually blown away before I get around to cleaning up the yard.
There is an apple tree right outside the kitchen window. I love looking out in the spring and seeing all the beautiful blossoms and now I get to see the developing fruit we'll get to enjoy this fall. Again with having a fruit tree it's a pain to clean up all the fallen rotting fruit off the ground in the fall, but that's what you have kids for right ;)?
All over we have these daisy like flowers. They're smaller that the usually daisy variety I'm familiar with, but I'm enjoying them anyway. They seem pretty hardy too, which is good.
I discovered these little beauties in the back flower bed earlier this week. I use the word flower bed loosely because these are the only flowers with a bunch of weeds. I don't know what kind of flower they are, but I especially love their purple color.
We have 3 Lilac bushes on the property! I love Lilacs, they are my absolute favorite! I was so looking forward to enjoying the beautiful blooms and lovely scent this spring. But unfortunately right as the blooms were getting ready to come out we had a cold snap and thus no blooms this year. To say that I was disappointed is an understatement.
I don't know what these flowers are called either, but I have always loved them whenever I saw them around. Once I'm in my own house again I would love to have some of these in the flower beds!
We have two big pine trees in our yard. I love the smell they give off. It always gives me the sense of being in the mountains. But all the pine cones in the grass is such a pain!
I keep telling myself that I'm going to get busy and clean up the landscape of this place but haven't managed to find the time or energy to do it yet. Watering the lawn by it'self is a full time job. As you can see by the pictures that even with all my effort our lawn is anything but a luscious green. We have such awful water pressure at our place that I can only use one sprinkler at a time. So, by the time I've water the front and the back all day long, switching the water every hour or so, it's time to start again.! It is a major pain!
All in all I really enjoy the mature trees, bushes, and flowers. It makes me think that once we're ready to buy a house again I might like to get an older home so that we can enjoy the mature landscape.
