I am not a gardner!!

As the title suggests, I am not good at gardening. Not sure if its not having the time, not having the patience, or perhaps just not being able to plant things in the first place, but either way, I am horrible at it.

So these 1st 4 pictures show my 2 weeks of hard work trying to make the garden pretty. I pulled up some ugly plants the builders planted, took up all the old mulch, planted all the flowers (different sizes & color of zinnias) around the edges and then put down all new mulch. We also had a drainage problem when it rained (it would come pouring down from the corner of the garage & dining room roof) and it would displace all the dirt & mulch, so I got rocks to cover the area, it has been working very nicely. Doesnt it look pretty, I worked HARD on this.









Well, these next 3 pictures is what happened about a month after all my hard work. Isnt it sad :( Now to explain, the mulch is still black, its just that the huge tree in our yard is dropping those little yellow things like candy, I tried to pick them up but do not have the time or the patience for that.







As you can tell, the flowers are DEAD!!! Everytime I got home and would pass them on my way inside I would get really pissed off, so I wanted to just pull them up and replace them with rocks (which Im guessing I cant kill), but Ian told me that I had to shock them back to life. So I tried, I went and got flower food and was really trying, but amazingly enough, they actually started dying faster!! So this weekend I gave up and cut off all the dead stems and pulled out any big chunks that had no hope of making it. I would say I threw away about 2/3rds of the flowers, but the 1/3 that is left is actually blooming now, but Im having to really pay attention to them. Im gonna wait about another week and if they still look good I'll take some new pics and post them so you can all see my progress!!