I am definitely no master gardener, I'm really just a beginner.  Please remember this is what we started with after a very brutal winter - so sad looking I know:

We had an extraordinarily cold winter here in Central Florida so virtually all of my "perennials" didn't make it.  I had a few azaleas that did so I decided to give a few more of those a try.  I decided to get some daisies, roses, and a small magnolia bush.  Wish me luck.  Hopefully I'll be able to show you some progress in a week or two.

As you can see we were off to a rough start:

I ordered a lot of several solar flowers from a magazine called Collections that light up at night.  We then mistakenly put down rubber mulch BEFORE instead of after planting our flowers.  I have no idea what we were thinking - we are obviously fairly clueless when it comes to gardening :)

  Here is where we are at present.  I will be adding more because some won't make it of course I like a lot of color.

As you can see I still have some work to do!  Thanks for stopping by and any suggestions are welcome :)