When we moved into our home three years ago, our yard was nothing but dirt, weeds, trash and scrubby mesquite.

Now, it’s grass, flowers, dirt, weeds and scrubby mesquite! 🙂 But it has taken SO MUCH work to make these small changes.

As I was working on our landscaping a couple of years ago, I noticed how expensive potted plants were. This is with good reason! It is very hard to get things to grow, and takes a ton of patience to wait for something beautiful. So last year, I decided to try planting some flowers from seed. It felt like a total failure at the time. I must have put down hundreds of seeds and probably had 10 random flowers come up over the summer.

BUT, this year, it’s a totally different story! I guess that those 10 flowers must have dropped their seeds, and now I have SOOOO many beautiful flowers! They aren’t all exactly where I would like them (many made their way into the driveway, walkways, etc.), but I don’t care. They are way too beautiful to pull!

Sometimes patience is required to see our work pay off!