Specialty Gardening: New 'Lasagne Bed' Update from Fall, 1 by alyrics

alyrics wrote:
Here's another small shot. The bed is about 20' long and 5' deep. I have planted about 50 lilies - Casa Blanca, Martagons, Black Beauty and both Lilium speciosum rubrum and alba, 20 Alliums - christophii and globemaster, Dwarf yellow hosta and H. Dust Devil, various astilbe, boxwood, carex evergold, 2 tree peonies, clematis, perennial geraniums, mum Mary Stoker, valerian, hellebores, daylilies, lily of the valley, tricyrtis, tiarella, tons of dwarf daffodils, dwarf conifers, tulips, sedums - Neon, Frosty Morn, Dragons Blood, Salvia Blue Hill, Dianthus barbatus, Delphinium Pacific Giant, Lobelia cardinalis, Filipendula ulmaria 'Aurea', Iris ensata variegata - the green and white, Becky Shasta Daisy and Japanese anenome Andrea Atkinson. Orignally my whole thought was to make a bed near the house that I didn't have to spray my lilies all the time to keep the deer out.

I am so sold on lasagna gardening that I started 2 more big projects last year. They don't look like much right now but they will. One is a 120' bed/problem area that was filled with just garbage trees and weeds from the former owner. I had it cleared and got a landscaping co to dump 2 x 10 ton dump trucks full of leaves on it last fall - for free - I now have the nicest leaf mold on top and will add to the height of the bed before finally landscaping it. Getting enough material to do something of this size is a challenge but the fall clean up crews were glad not to have to drive to their dumping area.