Here are the existing fruits in the yard. I planted each of these last summer, and they're still here!

This is where I had tomatoes and strawberries last year. I've completely neglected it since. Neil would like to plant something here, so I'm thinking about what would be best. It is from this space that I learned (about a month ago) that strawberries are apparently perennials - there's tons of them this year! None are flowering, though. I'm going to have to do a little research on that.


This is our beautiful raspberry plant. We just cut it WAY back. I need to research the pruning of this one.


And the pruning of this one, too, is one I need to learn! This is one of my grape plants. It is going crazy! I love grape leaves - they are so beautiful and sculpted. Right now, its patch is being shared by a bunch of bricks (we're "building" a patio this summer), but it has plenty of sun!


This sad little stick is the other grape plant. We thought is was a complete goner - Neil thought he had upset the roots when he mistook it for just a stick. It has a few blossoms on it as of yesterday, though! So there may yet be hope for it... once the bricks form a patio, we're hoping to put up a trellis of some sort for the grapes to climb up and meet on.

Our yard is very in progress... but it's coming. I think the people who we bought our home from did a bunch of things with the yard about 15 years ago and stopped there. It's kind of crazy, but we're getting there. Neil has done so much out there. If it weren't for him, it would be a jungle. I just try to make it pretty after he has done the groundwork. :)