Flashback Friday: My Old Roses

As I was looking through old photos this week

I found this beautiful shot of the roses

at our old house in Layton.

They sure were pretty! 

~B.

Looking To The Past - Irrigation Style

My husbands family roots run deep in this area.

In fact, his fourth great grandfather's home is on the historical register.

And the house is the oldest remaining original structure in the area.

We went for a quick little tour of it today.

We were peeking out the window during our tour

and all of a sudden we noticed ...

IRRIGATION DITCHES!!!

Why is that so exciting you may wonder?

Because our new home is just a few blocks away

and our new yard has FLOOD IRRIGATION too!

That's a whole new ballgame that we have to figure out how to use.

My husband and I have never lived somewhere where

we have water shares and have to turn on the flood gates when it's our turn.

It's something we are trying to wrap our heads around

as we try and come up with a new landscape plan for our new house.

So it was fun to see another yard that uses it.

Basically, they had built a ditch through the yard...

It started with a small rock waterfall structure

as it came down the yard.

I like that they made the irrigation ditches into focal points, 

with a nice water feature and "streams".

It was cool to see.

They even made a nice patio space around 

a HUGE pecan tree

{which is just out of the picture, sorry!}

It was fun and the docent even gave us the name of

someone nearby who knows all about the flood irrigation ditches

and how to work with them!

SCORE!!!

Meet My New Neighbor!

We haven't officially closed on our house yet

but I wanted you to meet my soon to be new neighbor!

We found a little gem in a small rural pocket of town!

I will have two cows across the street from me!

Personally, I'm scared of and fascinated with cows.

Maybe sometime I will tell you the story of

meeting a whole herd of cows that I thought were going 

to gang up on me and stampede me.

It was terrifying!

Hahaha!

More to come!

~B.

I'm Resurrecting My Old Garden Blog

It's been a while since I have had the chance to do any real gardening. We ended up moving to California for a few years and then moved back to Utah.  Before I get into our new house, yard and plans, I just wanted to pay tribute to my old yard that I used to blog about here.  After our plants were finally established in the yard, it really started to look amazing! Just the way I had always envisioned it!

These are old photos from when we sold our home.

Here were the pergolas with the grapevines growing onto them finally!

Here are the grapes growing onto the pergolas.

I had wondered how to grow them onto the pergolas with the posts so far away at one point, but we decided to grow them up the back fence and then trellis them over to the top.  It seemed to work.

They were the tastiest grapes too!

I forget the name of them now, but they were a light pink table grape.

We had installed a firepit that was so much fun!

Here are the grapes again.

Here we are looking over to my favorite

APPLE ESPALIERED TREES!

I was sooo- in love with those espaliers!  

I was also in love with my curved steps down to the patio,

and all the flower pots I had nestled up next to them!

She was a good house and we were making her our dream house!

I hope the new owners love her just as much as we did!

~B.