As weather, time, sunlight and budget allows, I've been reworking the gardens in the front of our house. I started to dig up the corner by the mailbox last summer. It had been a garden before, but kids, drought, grad school took priority and weeds took over. It tilled it and planted a few things from the clearance rack at a garden center.
Most of the plants made it over the winter, but that was just a start and I had a large, blank, dirt canvas. My husband surprised me last week by tilling those open areas for me and that allowed me to do the fun part today - put in plants. Home Depot is having a great sale so I only spent about $30 on plants. I haven't actually planted everything on this plan, but I have put in most of it. I am still musing over whether a peony is the best anchoring center plant. It is so lovely in the late spring, but pretty basic the rest of the year.
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Photo credits:
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Wooly Lamb's Ear about to flower, 2.
Plum Pudding Coral Bells, 3.
Salvia sylvestris, 4.
Oregano, 5.
Saxifrage, 6.
Foxglove , 7.
P1010941, 8.
P1010941, 9.
Artemisia 'Silver Mound', 10.
Scabiosa, 11.
varisageclose, 12.
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