Our first project play day was in October. We transformed Rose's mailbox into a beautiful curbside mailbox and flower bed area. Check out the before/after photos! Rose offered up her home in December where we enjoyed a lovely holiday gathering.Since it was too cold in January to do any actual work, we had a planning meeting at Naomi's to discuss what the year held for us in regard to projects and to select months for our individual projects.
February found us back at work. We spent the morning at Naomi's helping to prep her veggie garden (that is HUGE). I don't know that we were as productive as we should have been but we had fun! After a fabulous Korean food lunch, we ditched the garden to help paint little pots (that were later filled with seeds and goodies) for the Boys & Girls Club of Georgetown to use as fun giveaways at a Home & Garden show. While we didn't take pix of our working in the yard at Naomi's, we were all too proud to show off our fun pots!
March's workday was a busy one. We created a large flower bed around a group of crepe myrtle trees that were troublesome to mow around. Made for easier mowing of the area and added a beautiful bed at the same time! Please forgive the pictures... the camera was acting up a bit. Since the project day, the bed has become home to some beautiful flowers that have been grown from seed. A birdbath was set in the bed as well and a bench was placed nearby so Heather can sit and oooh and aaah over the beautiful job done.This past Saturday was our most recent Garden Hoe play date. We went to Jen's and after a lovely breakfast got to work on a couple of small beds in front of her home as a well as a small pond that will feature a waterfall. Thanks to a little creativity, muscle and trial and error, the beds were in and the pond base was mortared. After we finished that much, since the mortar had to dry anyway, we all packed up and headed over to enjoy the Lily Blossom Festival together at Hill Country Water Gardens!
These first two pix are before and after of one of the front beds. WOW, what a difference! I can't wait to see it again once it fills in. It really made that space "pop"! Sorry I didn't get the same angle on the shots... 
And talk about "pop"... check out these before and after photos of the other side of the entrance where we have the beginning of the water feature. Well, we sort-of have a before pix... Jen had already cleared out all the ivy that was covering that area to save us a little work. (Keep watch because updated pix will be coming in the near future and I, for one, can't wait to see the final result!)It is pretty much that "many hands make light work" philosophy and we have a hoot of a time working together (and our spouses like the fact that these yard projects are getting done without their being the ones having to do it!). I know, probably WAY more than you cared to know about us right off the bat, but.... There you go!
Welcome to the blog of the Garden Hoes. We hope you stop by often to see where we are in our wild gardening adventures.
--Hoe Heather
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