Progress in The Garden With Finials As The Finale

I thought of joining Chari of http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/ today for Sunday Favorites. Our backyard is kinda pitiful looking right now except for the sparkling blue water in the pool, so I thought of reposting pictures from last summer, after the iron fence was installed. I am a little late but better late than never. I had a dinner party for 14 lst night and I am still cleaning up.

Thank you, Chari for making this possible. It gives me a good feeling to think that I can possibly make the yard looking like this again after winter.

I am again linking with 2 gracious ladies: Sally for Blue Monday and Susan for Metamorphosis Monday. Please visit these fine ladies at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ and http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ respectively and then visit their participants also. I am definitely sure that you will enjoy them all.

Whew! A very hectic week just went by. My stepdaughter and her 3 little precious children were here for a visit and just left Friday. They sure kept us hopping the week they were here. There was never a dull moment.

Now, I am back to normal so I am back on full swing on my blog (although I never really neglected my blogging for I stayed up late at night to post). But my garden was put on hold and below are pictures of how it looked when I stopped working on it.

I have to apologize because my pictures are a little out of order and I really do not want to redo the whole post. I just added the first 3 pictures so please bear with me. Anyway, here is the finished fence viewed from outside the side yard. The "before" is shown below. Sorry, lol!

John and I went to a garden shop in Baton Rouge and saw this eucalyptus bench. It was marked down from $219 to $89.00 and it is very heavy and solid so I told him we should buy it. And being an obedient hubby, he agreed, lol! So, here it is! Do you like it there?

Here we are all posing in the gazebo.

Noah and Zoe, after picking some basil for our pasta dinner. They really enjoyed doing that, can you tell? Do you see our vegetable garden behind them? Our basil went crazy. It is growing everywhere, even outside the raised garden.

Did you notice Zoe's cute blue top? I think that will qualify for a Blue Mon. contribution, right?

Cute smiles, huh!

You probably still remember when I posted the gazebo being installed.

It is looking better now with plants and sod around it.

We placed some stepping stones going down so we can easily access the secret garden down below.

Here is another entry to the secret garden from the other side of the yard.

Some flowers are still blooming.

We laid bricks under the table and chairs. We need to buy more. It's been raining almost everyday, thus, the puddle there.

Here is the area where you can see our backyard neighbor's house. It is near the vegetable garden. This is how it looked before the fence was put up.

I planted some flowering plants in the area close to the deck.

See the posts?

And now the fence is up. We put a gate there in case we want to go out from the side yard. It would be a good exercise going up and down the hill.

Here is on the side yard after the fence was installed.

Good thing we put a fence up cause when the wind blows hard, it blows the pool toys away. Now, at least they stay in our yard.

This is the side of the driveway going to the backyard. Just ignore the plants. Some of them have already been planted but some are still waiting.

Here is that same area with the fence.
I just love the finials, rings and the gates.

Thank you Sally and Susan, for hosting these 2 fun memes. Thank you all for stopping by!