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

poolrunning wrote:
Thanks Caitlin! Just imagine when all the doors and burner openings are stuffed with spreading annuals this spring! I am! My laptop in the kitchen gives a great view already, off to my right thru the open kitchen door! Sunshine, flars, doggehs. If only hubby would retire so we could live here year 'round-- it would be herbs!

The bulbs are in, just in time to look like a fresh grave for Halloween. I have several more inches of topsoil and mulch to add, and bricks all around to prevent dirt creep-- the adjoining grass gets lasagna layering in the spring so this daffy bed is mounded accordingly. Haha-- lasagna in the cottage garden. Makes sense since the odd veg here and there goes in too. Green peppers. Leeks. Carrots for kids-- this IS after all on the children's side of the front walk.

The big un's up the middle are mixed Daffs, loosely clumped (with a few 'escapes') by variety. The little ones at the edges and lower end are grape hyacinth. Where you see the big black bin-- that will be filled in Saturday with white rock for the wishing well to go in the spring. I'll add some garden art after I add the rest of the topsoil-- my back hurts. Enough for today-- they're outta the bag and IN THE GROUND!


This message was edited Oct 15, 2015 1:23 PM