Beginner Gardening: Garden Successes This Year, 1 by trifunov

trifunov wrote:
This is what it looks like now, just before fall...

We had 9000sqft of grass professionally laid - what a mess of weeds, so we laid the remaining 3000sqft ourselves (a very hard day of work). Then we had a picket fence put in to stop the kids and dog falling in the creek behind the house. I ordered an arbor off the internet and added it over the gate, then laid some paving for the bench in front of the house. I have about 20 roses planted in front of the fence and garage and around the bench and front door, interplanted with daylilies. Then I have lots of pink, yellow and white daisies between them (shasta's, asters, coreopsis, groundsel) and the beginning of an iris "patch" in a boggy area at the far end of the garage. The builder had brought in 2-3ft of subsoil to raise the foundation above the 100 year flood level, so I had to remove all the soil in the beds and replace it before I could plant anything. All this digging must be good for me...