Empty Canvas

There's been very little time for landscape gardening this year, and my canvas was still under construction, but now we are almost at the stage where I can start thinking about trees and shrubs and perennials again.

I hope to draw from my daughters' gardens, just as they drew from mine when they started theirs.

I also brought a few divisions of my favorites from my last garden and stuck them in a row in my vegetable garden.

I also plan on using some of the shrubs and trees that are growing wild throughout the property.

The fun will be planning.  But oh what a lot of work to put it all together!

We Love this Re-purposed Flower Container

Tad has outgrown his "turtle sandbox" and I couldn't bare to toss it out. Since it was located at the edge of my garden behind the fence. It's the one I like to call my secret garden even though everyone who comes to a plant sale sees it. Anyway, It was the perfect place for a little rock garden. All I had to do was mix some potting soil mix into the existing sand and it was the perfect mix for sedum. I planted several kinds among the stones I had gathered the last time I went to mom's creek. The center seemed a good place for a strawberry crock full of Hens and Chicks.

We all loved it - even Tad, Well, after seeing it all fixed up different, he did want to run his trucks around in it one more time... no no!

Quick change from logs to Rocks in my Cottage Garden

When we moved here, there were two tiny raised flower beds enclosed by poles.  I didn't like them much, but my initial chore of turning the lawn into more garden consumed my time.

That was two years ago. 

Last week we arranged to trade our SUV in for a very small Kia, Rio, and I decided to get some rocks from a near by field while I still had the SUV.

  I removed the rotten wood from around the beds, and stacked the rocks without doing much damage to the creeping flocks and rock cress.




I love the results and it didn't cost me anything but my time and the Gas to get the rocks.