The weather was so beautiful today that I spent a good chunk of time outside.  Today's big job was to fill the two wooden boxes Papa built for me with compost.  Over the past few days I have also planted six azaleas, several shrubs and Rebecca planted some flowers. 

Here are my "Square Foot Gardening" boxes.  I am really excited about trying this method by the book this year!

Here is one of the azaleas:

These are the flowers that Rebecca planted:

This is a plant that we put in a few years ago, but is blooming beautifully right now and I can't help but show it off.  The leaves come in kind of a light pinkish/green color, change to a light green, change again to a bright red and finally end up a dark green.  There are also beautiful white, dangling bunches of flowers.  It's a really cool plant.  I just wish I could remember what it is called!

A few weeks ago I raked the mulch from one of our raised beds and found a rather large patch of parsley that I had planted last year.  I thought it had pretty much died off in a big freeze last fall.  It is thrving and growing bigger it seems like every day.  Is parsley supposed to do that? 

I also watched a really cool gardening show on PBS called Gardening in Georgia.  It's nice to get informatoin that's especially for your region in a TV show.