Decorating Outdoors

Your idea sounds great! What kind of flowers are you planning to plant? I have been redoing my yard and one side is totally done in pots of mini roses. I have about 100 rose plants around my home. I am going to redo my drive way from a lime rock to brick with moss planted between the bricks. I am also going to do a seating area under my Mullberry tree in the front yard. The back yard and one side is garden with all kind of veggies (I just picked about a dozen spinach leaves and munched them down). I need to paint the house and the skirting around the base, and I will paint the carport to match. I have the best time planning and planting the garden and what I am going to do with the yard. Most people around where I live feel that if they put gravel in their driveway the place is decorated. Yet they all stop and admire my roses (I have regular rose bushes and then climbing roses that cover the edges of the roof and when they're in bloom it looks like a massive yellow carpet that is so wonderfully fragrant. I have the most landscaped yard in the entire housing area...which is a sad statement. When you plant flowers, be sure to plant some marigolds, they do a wonderful job of keeping the insects and fleas away from the yard. Also coffee grounds will deter cut worms from attacking your plants. (I get bags and bags of coffee grounds from Starbucks...the grounds are free and do wonderful things for your garden!) Take a picture of the Trellis and bench and post it on MyLot, it would be great to see.