Hey everybody, I hope you all are all doing well. It is Saturday afternoon and I'm out here braving the weather. It looks like it's about to start raining on me again. We just had a really nice rain a second ago. I'm out here because I wanted to give you all an update on what's been going on back here in this bed underneath my laundry room window, the sunroom windows on the left there, and my master bedroom windows right there. So if you're new and just joining us, my name is Megan. I live in Dothan Alabama, zone 8B in the southeast corner of the state, and we get hot summers here. And so we moved into this house about a year ago at the end of the month. And so I've been really trying to create a garden here for myself. We came from a cottage home in the same town and I had a cottage garden at my last home that I absolutely loved and it was sad to leave it. So I'm very happy right now looking at this garden that's coming together to be a cottage garden. I've done some things since we last were together. Okay, if you go back a few videos to the transformation of my back garden bed video, you will see what this was when we first moved in. There was that hedge of hollies that just went straight across the back wall here right up under the windows just straight under these windows and all the way to the porch, which I took out. And in that transformation video, you remember I planted a twilight magic crate myrtle right here. Well, the reason that it's not there and that the vi-tex is there now is because I realized I had planted these, these lime light had ranges which are regular lime lights so they get six to eight feet tall and wide. There's three of them back here on this wall, two close to the house. I had planted them about three feet from the house and about four feet from each other. Well, because I live in the southeast and we have such a long growing season, I'm expecting these to get at least eight feet tall and wide. So I moved them out four feet from the house and six feet from each other and when I did that I realized that the crate myrtle was going to be really really tight in that spot. The twilight magic crate myrtle, I believe it gets 12 to 15 feet wide and maybe even 20 feet tall. I'll have to google that but so anyway it was going to be pretty crowded. So I ended up just moving it to me go slow so that it doesn't give you whiplash. Okay, but I moved it over here and I took out some sod that was right here so I extended the bed out this way and I planted the twilight magic right there in the middle. So if you look at this tree here you'll see that some of the leaves are yellowing in orange and the reason is because it's not an ideal time to be transplanting anything but y'all know I'm just trying to get things established and I'm just trying to get things placed correctly and I'm really gardening right now for the future. So if things are struggling right now in my garden that is okay to me because I'm really more focused on getting things where they need to be. Okay, now since the transformation video I have adjusted these adagiagrasses that are over here under my sunroom window. I had four and they were planted too close together. So now I have three and spread them out. I love those grasses and they're doing really well here. Okay, I added in a couple of boxwoods, some azalea, some misliminabialia and some twist of lime abialia. How cute is that? All right, so these are also something that I'm really excited about. These are some perennials that are called yellow my darling. I saw them at Loser Home Depot. I can't remember and I thought they were so cute. So I bought a few and put them in here. Also some purple cone flower are interspersed in here. And I've said before how much I love Duranta. That's that shard trees plant right here on the border. Duranta is one of my favorite plants and you just buy it for the foliage and it just stays in a mound. It gets probably two to three feet tall and wide. You can keep it shaped in a ball or you can just let it go crazy. This is called gold mound Duranta. It was one of the first plants that I fell in love with when I started gardening. Okay, so that azalea back there is I'm not even really sure what kind it is but it might be an autumn carnation. There's another one back here. Okay, and then that Oakland holly that's in the container back there was in my Japanese maple area and it was getting way too much shade. So I took it up and I put it in that container and I like it. It's going to give a little bit of structure to that area in that corner there. My Carolina Cypress forbaltopiary and then let me show you all this. So this is an Eaglesden holly tree and I'll put a picture up on the screen so that you can show so that you can see what my plan is but you can keep these trees either just natural and let them grow and they'll probably get about 15 to 20 feet tall and wide. They're kind of a mid-sized tree or you can keep them in a very tight pyramidal form and that's what I plan to do. I think it's super cute. It's kind of like just having a big topiary and it just adds such a fun like structure and detail into the garden. And then behind it kind of in a triangular shape I planted three azaleas. They're on core azaleas and to be honest I can't remember exactly what Khan they are but you see they have these great bubblegum pink blooms and a glossy leaf. But I just wanted to jump on real quick and tell y'all what's been going on and the reason that I didn't do a video is because it was real hot and I sometimes just like to get out here and just get it done. Okay let me tell y'all real quick about this. This is a divinely blue deodor cedar. I bought it online. I had it at the other house and I originally put it in one of the front island beds but I decided that it would look really pretty as a textural contrast and a color contrast to the lime lights. Look at how pretty that is. This is a weeping tree and I don't think it gets very big maybe about seven feet tall and wide and so at some point the branches ought to reach the ground and cover up that trunk. Everything is young right now and I'm planting and I'm gardening right now for the next few years and I can't wait to see how everything matures and I really appreciate y'all coming along with me and being so encouraging. All right y'all I hope you all have a great weekend and I'll talk to you in the next one. Bye.