Specialty Gardening: Suburban Right Angles to Cottage Garden - Year1 Planning, 2 by poolrunning

poolrunning wrote:
The pieces pictured here are a combination of found, made, and thrift shop items; total cost under $10.

Another good thing that happened was meeting the current crop of neighborhood kids to helop get all my projects done; also, we learned why that cleft I'm doing in bulbs HAD a cleft, and why not to put my beloved spiraea there-- that's where the sellers' old shrub already clogged the drain with roots!

Pic 1: Black and Peach colored dolls to come, on the bench. (Need waterproofed.)

Pic 2: Hummingbird on the hummingbird side (R) of the front door.

Pic 3: The rusty gold planter sits behind where the storm door opens, which needs a very heavy item to tether it open; slated for that spot is a concreted base for the planter shown, plus a heavy stone liner, with annuals to top it. (As it sits now, it has a shallow lead liner tray-- which will come out to allow for a deeper center of gravity.)

Pic 4: The older I get, the more I AM my late mom. (Big surprise.) Also, her estate paid for half of this house.

Pic 5: More small pieces still needed here. To come from more future Goodwill trips.

The plan for the left half of the front yard is still a children's garden. The kids who helped move rocks affirmed this, and will help lasagna-mulch a path for me in the spring-- now that I actually know where the path needs to be. That will leave, then, two medium-sized areas to lasagna-garden, and start getting perennials into the whole children's garden next year, including the bed shown here with the bench.

The vision is to plant and/or mulch what I can, each visit-- within an overall plan to "cottage out" all of it... when I'm here fulltime.

I've missed you guys!!! How are your gardens? Links to see?


~S~

This message was edited Oct 12, 2015 7:09 PM