Update a tiny bit

Well thank goodness it's summer! My garden got a real slow start this year. First I hurt myself and couldn't work,then we went away for a vacation and then I hurt myself again. But it's getting there...
I expanded the flower beds around most of the house. Put in four more veg beds and two lazy beds. I'm trying my hand at upside pot gardening. I think they look ugly but I found some kits really cheap so I thought what the heck. The kids had fun planting them. They loved how the soil grew ,coconut compressed soil you add water to so it expands into a growing medium.
I'm putting in a lavender bed in the land before you hit our flower beds that divide the front.I think it will do really well there,lavender loves sunny dry soil and if it does I'm going to go ahead with my meadow front yard plan. I am soooo sick of grass it just doesn't grow well on the cape unless you really work at it and I'd rather spend my time growing other things. I've been reading a few books and I think it will really suit both my style and our environment. The picture below you can kind of get the idea of what I am thinking but I'll use plants mostly native to the Cape.

After the meadows then the front flower beds and trees (which I might eventually turn into meadow too)come my vegetable beds and the finished plan is to kind of look like this when it's done. I want to put in a very small shed for my tools and a potting bench. I don't like sharing a shed with the boys they are messy and I have to climb over all their junk to get to my tools.
I want to put in an herb garden on the left side yard. I've been drooling over a local musuem's circular herb bed for years now and really really want one of my own! I have some herbs nestled among the perennial beds but I really want to add and learn more about medicinal herbs. I haven't worked out the design yet,something along the line of the garden below but less rigid. I might splurge and get bricks for the path,they remind me so much of my Grandma's garden.

We're also bringing down the big trees right in the front (all but Francesca's climbing tree and replacing them with dwarf fruit trees but I probably wont' do that till spring because I want to put in a greenhouse this fall and I can't over load Chris with too many things.

So that is all nothing hugely interesting going on right now. Just that life is soooo sweet despite all it's imperfections!