Mom's "Memorial" Garden

Mom and I have finally finished another project. Mom wanted to make the courtyard off our kitchen a nice garden area to sit when it's really hot. We have another patio off the side of the house, but the courtyard is about 10 degrees cooler, and always seems to have a good breeze. Mom decided that we should put up a plaque and call this area the Sherri Smith Memorial Garden. I pointed out that I'm pretty sure you cannot have a memorial garden unless you're dead. Mom thought that after all this work we've been doing she might actually be dead soon! :)

So here is what the courtyard looked like before we started working on it...Rocky likes to get in all the pictures:)



We found some great chairs...they only took us an entire day to assemble, and then we went crazy at the plant store. We put all the window boxes in, and weeded and planted the bed against the wall. We also put up the hanging baskets, but thankfully someone had already drilled the hooks into the wall for us...we don't have a very good history with drilling into concrete if you remember:) So, here it is, the finished "Sherri Smith Memorial Garden"...although we're still working on getting that plaque;)