Sometimes when you're deep in the garden working away, you forget how much it changes and what it looked like before. The top picture is now and the bottom picture is when it all started. I had a bare spot where a swimming pool had been and I decided to use the opportunity of no grass to establish a bed. It looks like to me that the one plant that has done the best is the purple verbena. The garden has now grown to encompass the white Lady Banks rose and a volunteer willow tree has erupted out of the earth. Since I have a granddaughter named Willow I just left it to grow. I really think there's an underground stream there somewhere. This year I added the pathway for ease of working the bed. The grandkids love running through it. Let's see what next year brings.