Begun!
It is the first really gorgeous day of Spring today. The sun is shining, and the air is warm enough that I was able to be out in my garden in my shirtsleeves.
The front of my house had a tiny little, poorly planned garden, that was really a bit lackluster for my tastes. There are signs that there will be some lovely plants in there. It looks like I’ve got a really good bed of irises starting to grow up. However, that’s about it, and it is really small. So, today, I made a start at expanding the front garden, and adding a little bit of visual splendour to my front yard.
My overall plan is to create a garden that extends all the way down my driveway. In an attempt at reason, I didn’t attempt to de-sod the entire thing today. For starters, my back wouldn’t hack it. For another, that would be a lot of planting right now. So, I added a curve around the place where the paved area juts out to make space for the steps and entry to the house.
Yesterday when I was at Home Depot picking up some gardening things, I came upon a “roll out flower garden“. I was intrigued. Plus, it only cost $9.99, rather than a couple dollars per plant if I’d bought seedlings, or a couple dollars per packet if I’d bought individual seeds. It is a butterfly and hummingbird garden mix, including alyssum, aster, baby’s breath, bachelor button, black eyed susan, butterfly milkweed, candytuft, catchfly, delphinium, forget me not, lemon mint, mexican hat, mignonette, plains coreopsis, purple coneflower, salvia, scarlet flax, shirley poppy, toadflax, and yellow prairie coneflower. All I had to do was roll it out, and water it.
I guess we’ll see how it goes!
Next up: digging out my veggie garden! I got some seeds for that yesterday too!
