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New garden
Well, I am whipped ...
Got myself a cubic yard of topsoil from the local pile o' dirt men and finally filled in my new raised bed (and have a little left over for future projects, though it was only through the blessed intervention of my neighbor that I finally got it all off the truck -- RSI and general feebleness, you know... but the tale of toting dirt for another day). So now I have a nice flower bed that wraps partway around my deck. Imagine a slightly stretched-out sans-serif C, with lovely healthy forsythia dominating the short legs and a new-ish jasmine on a trellis in the middle of the long side. What would you plant? I definitely want various salvia in some of it -- I have bird feeders in the back yard and I want to attract more hummers as well as butterflies. The salvia, when they grow tall, will be a nice screen along the edge of the deck. But I don't want to do just salvia, and I don't want only tall plants. I'm a little stumped about what to put toward the front of the bed that will complement the taller plants but not overwhelm the jasmine, which is still pretty short at this stage. I realize it's hard to suggest anything without seeing the landscape -- if I can get a picture, I'll post it somewhere. For now, I'm interested in the fruits of brainstorming by more experienced gardeners than I. Oh, and it's mostly sunny, the soil's a tad on the clay-ey side but I'm going to stir in some mulch, and I'd prefer perennials. MAL |
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