Happy Earth Day! In an effort to cut our water use, we have taken out sod in our lawn. In place of the sod we are going to create an amazing backyard garden, a space for flowers and another space for vegetables and herbs. We hope to attract butterflies, birds and honeybees. Watering a lawn of grass is so expensive and uses so much water that it is wasteful. There are lots of beneficial plants that can take its place and use far less water. We have a bunch of seeds we are going to plant after the last frost, after Mother's day. I have some seedlings growing inside as well. All of the sod is pulled up and now we just need to till the area and put a garden path in it.
My husband took a Lowe's run with our daughter Mila on Thursday and he came home telling me that they had tons of plants on clearance at Lowes. Mila and I have checked out all of the plants in the garden center in anticipation for planting season so we know their stock was good, they had tons of beautiful plants available. We had previously scored three rose bushes and some poppy plants on sale for $3 each! Anyway, I was putting Mila to bed so Thomas went back and filled carts full of plants! We have a backyard budget and we did want to include already developed flowers, so this was a great opportunity to stock up! (In no way is this a sponsored post, I just wanted to share our experience).
