So I drove my mother down to a plant buying frenzy down at Lowes yesterday (we couldn't do fireworks, so we could at least buy plants). Today we got everything all planted.
It took a bit of time but we got it done, at least the first round of the planting. I think there need to be a bit more but my mother wants to wait for a bit to see what takes and what doesn't, which makes sense. In the pictures below you can see the iris I
mentioned before at the far/shallow end (towards the woods) and everything else towards the patio door end (the deeper end). There's a bit of an open space there in the bed that my mother is reserving for future expansion; after she's happy with what's there she might decide on some more. We'll see.
I've noted to her that we probably should be putting some kind of mulch into the bed to help with water retention and such, and she's mulling over. There are several kinds of mulch....various colored rubber bits, natural or dyed bark, etc. We'll see.
Steven in Colorado
Photos
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| A shot from the "upper end". From this view the flower bed looks rather rounder than it is. |
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| A better shot that shows the flower bed a bit better. |
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