Home Improvement – Flower Beds
Ok, time for some pictures. I’m not in a wordy mood so I’ll try to keep this to a minimum.
The flower beds have been bothering me. I’ve gone back looking for good pictures to serve as “before” images (since I failed to take any), but none really do justice to the dramatic change.
Anyway, here are three flower beds we’ve redone over the last couple weeks. (by the way, you can click on the pics below for the full size versions)
First, the front of the house. This picture was taken just before we bought the house, so October-ish last year.
I know it’s hard to see, but there’s not much but bushes, dusty miller, and that purple crap that’s so hard to kill off to the right side of the porch. Well since October, the dusty miller got completely out of control and was at least 2 feet tall. Keith got fed up with it and ripped it all out whenever Mom & Dad were here visiting (maybe 3 weeks ago) — so we’ve had EMPTY (besides shrubs & weeds) flower beds in the front.
We ended up pulling a couple shrubs; planted 3 hydrangias (did you know you can change their color? right now we’ve got 2 blue and 1 pink, but we’ll be watering with some stuff that will change them to all blue over the next couple weeks), a bunch of caladiums, yellow merigolds, and some snap dragons off to the right of the porch.
Here’s what it looks like now:
Next up – the flower bed between the front gate and the sun room. It used to have a big rosemary bush, dusty miller, and some other junk (forget what it was called), but everything but the rosemary got pulled when Keith was pulling stuff. Here’s a pic taken just before we bought the house:
And another “before” pic:
So I left the rosemary, and put in a tomato plant (“Celebrity” hybrid variety – not too big, not too small) and some basil. Once upon a time I read that growing tomatoes close to herbs makes them more tasty, so that’s why I stuck it between the basil & rosemary.
Here’s what it looks like now:
And last, but certainly not least, the flower bed on the west side of the sun room. THIS one was a freakin’ beast. It was OVERGROWN with… stuff. lol I don’t think any of us really cares much what it was, but it took me about 3 hours a couple weeks ago to pull it all up. Well, most of it. Here are a couple before pics (again, taken last year):
I left a couple things (more rosemary, some unidentified plant, and another one I salvaged from the front flower bed). Then we filled in with zinnias, more yellow marigolds, and a couple Egyptian star flowers. Here are the after pics:
Whew. I’m exhausted. Time for a cold one…
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