The shed garden.

Our weather has been very nice the past several days, and it seems that the plants were waiting for the sun and warmer weather as much as I was. Everything seems to be growing quickly all of a sudden. One area that seems to be doing well is the new garden in front of the shed. I still haven't decided what I'm calling it, so far now it's still "the shed". Maybe once I get it decorated a little I'll be able to give it a name. I'm hoping we can visit some antique stores or flea markets this summer and find something gardeny to use. I have just loved having everything organized inside and it's kept my tools in much better condition already. I still plan to put up some shelves inside and maybe find an old chair or something for the deck.

I've been slowly adding plants in. I've found a couple of native plants for this area and think I will also add a Sword fern which is a native evergreen fern. The shrub against the fence is a Flowering Currant (Ribes Sanguineum) 'King Edward VII' - a native shrub - which will be smaller than my other Pink Flowering Currant.

Another Pacific Northwest native wildflower is Lewisia cotyledon. This is more of an alpine plant which according to the tag likes "perfect drainage". Hopefully this sunny area in a bit of gravelly soil will work. There are lots of little flower buds growing on it. I've been working on adding more native plants into my garden.

Astrantia 'Sunningdale Variegated' really is pretty tough. I dug into it twice after transplanting it here. This was new to my garden last year and I can't wait to see it bloom this year.

I love how these two Heucheras are looking together 'Green Spice' is the closer one and 'Berry Smoothie' is right next to it. Right behind them I found some Foxglove seedlings that have flower buds on them.

The little Pink Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) is doing well here too. They don't seem to be very fast growing trees, so I'm sure it'll be many years before it looks like the one in our front yard.

There is still work to do here, but so far I'm really happy with how it's filling in.
My in-laws are coming to visit this week and I'm glad our predicted weather is sunny and warm, hopefully we can spend some time outside now that the garden is looking good. That way I'll be forced to just enjoy it while we visit rather than on the ground weeding.