Specialty Gardening: Suburban Right Angles to Cottage Garden - Year1 Planning, 3 by poolrunning

poolrunning wrote:
A lot has happened since my last visit to Dave's Garden, even some of it in my garden.... one GOOD thing is that I have now determined that my annual FALL visit to Ohio and our someday-retirement house will be the annual LONG visit, so I can hopefully get some roots into the ground.

To that end, the trench full of rocks (anti-grass strategy) is now empty and ready for mixed daffodils. That's the first pic below. I'll plant it this week. Where you see a black bin set into the far end of the trench-- that's the white windmill to rebuild in the spring and set on a base of the white stone.

The antique woodstove arrived and has a first mock-up of its eventual fully-planted look; that's the 2nd pic below. Till we're here fulltime, I'll plunk a dozen potted annuals onto the burners. A few baskets with pansies are enough to feed my eye 'til spring's visit.

I still want a windowbox under the window pictured with more pansies in pic 3. Since we may move the adjoining door a tad, I didn't build it this visit.

The last 2 pix are the lasagna-gardening extended front bed. I've now more than doubled those beds from the skinny row of white rocks that were there when we bought the house; I've also added small pieces of garden art. The bed now also extends towards the side wall of the house; where you see a pottery owl, that's where the dwarf lilac will go. At the February visit, the lasagna will be extended all the way across that side of the house.

One more pic to come in the next post-- my garden art.

~Susan