A very busy productive day and...................

So today as I am working in my backyard I was shocked to see that my beautiful white blooming clematis was dying and after further inspection this is the cause of the deadness you see!

 Here is the culprit! Guilty as charged she has used the vines of my clematis and constructed a nest!

 Here is what I found in her nest and it is the tiniest nest I have seen besides the hummingbirds nest I find occasionally in my hanging plants!

My poor yard, my poor clematis,I have weeds everywhere in the yard due to not being able to get the weed control down last summer and fall and yet this spring. I did apply it once but am pretty sure the rain washed most of that away. I am pretty much starting from square 1 again!This is the back corner that needs so much work done.

 Leaving the back corner you come to the pond garden all those purple wild phlox that is blooming, I did not plant the birds must have planted them.

 My little herb garden right off the back door steps, I have dahlias in my pots this year on the steps.

 Pond area and garden I can not believe how big some of the plants got I might need to do some rearranging I will wait and see how it looks when everything else blooms.

 My pond

 This garage is on my list to get painted and I have a new pallet to put my garden shed on as my yard floods when we have heavy rains .Still have some pots to get planted up and a fence to get stained we just need it to quit raining every other day so I can get going on the painting and staining.

 This is my full sun garden again some more wild phlox,I don't know where this stuff came from but I have plants that were never in my gardens before show up and have pretty much lost all my cone-flower and Shasta daisy's because of the winter we had.The swing is getting torn apart that last wet heavy snow we had did a number on it time to say goodbye.

 This is my little garage garden 1 out of the 3 Clematis has survived so I am gonna have to replace those.

I moved the vine that came down from the side of the house and have relocated it back here. I am hoping it will cover the fence with some added height like the bittersweet vine has on the other side. I hate having those apartments behind me and the people who live there watching my every move in the backyard. If I could build a fence 10 ft high long the back it would be there! This is just a start of the pictures from the backyard I will post more later along with new ones when projects are completed and updated.