ETA: I think I wrote this post sometime around June, but recently discovered that it never actually got posted. Since I talk about this flower bed a lot and consider it a work in progress...I'm posting it now.
Somewhere in that clump is not only a massive multiflora rose, but also a medium-sized holly bush. But when you look at it, you can't even tell they're there.
So I've devoted several hours this spring to chopping down volunteer trees and ripping out at least three different kinds of ivy, one of which seems to give me a very mild rash. The cups you see in the picture at the top are little perennial seedlings, some of which I've already planted but many of which are still tipping over every time the wind gusts above 5mph. ("Do you think they thought those were just trash?" N asked about the cups after some guests left one night.) There are balloon flowers, pony tail grass, mallow, and soapwort, as well as a few daylilies I planted from seed last spring, a couple tough-as-nails flowering shrubs rescued from my former neighbor's flower bed, and two blueberry bushes. (And, of course, potatoes in the recycling tote.) It still takes some imagination, but I think it's going to be spectacular once it's planted and growing.
Hey Shaela,
ReplyDeleteI miss your blog!!