The ever important first post

I am so very new to the gardening world. My grandfather had a nursery and I remember him taking clippings and starting little seeds in tiny pots and he would let me make the holes with my little kid fingers to place the seeds in. My aunt and uncle always had a very interesting garden, she is very artsy and they both have eclectic taste. I still love the old piece of metal fencing in their backyard with beautiful old cobalt blue bottles turned upside down atop each post, that is where the muscadine vine grows in summer. My mom always enjoyed having a garden and since I was about 9 we lived in a refurbished 1890s "gingerbread house". My favorite part was the walk up the front stairs flanked by gigantic hydrangeas.

All this is leading up to telling you that when I went off to college every attempt I had at trying to grow things (except my pups) turned out disastrous. Dead, dead, dead. I have since gotten married and we just bought a house. Our house is on acre of land which had mostly been cleared except for several pecan trees, and a hodge-podge mix of trees along the property line (we are on a corner, the road in front dead-ends and we have a road along the side of the house with a small forest on the other side perfect for kitty capers but we will talk about Mr Whiskers later). We bought the house in the end of June it took about a month before the overwhelming desire to cover the acre in plants took over. Then it was off to the nursery with my poor husband (who for the record hates doing yard-work). He was a good sport though and we came home with a truck full of plants spent the entire day planting and the next couple of weeks hoping that somehow I had developed a green thumb. It is now 3 months later NOTHING has died and I have planted much more since. Today for times sake I am just going to be posting pictures of what the house looked like when we moved in but later I will make posts of the plants that we have added. Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and I welcome any comments or tips (keep in mind I am very new at this).