Garden Report

We’re build­ing a lot of stone walls this year. When we first had the lawns and beds installed we didn’t have the time and money to build the bed walls that we wanted so we used the black plas­tic edg­ing to keep the grass out of the beds (sort of) This year we’re replac­ing the plas­tic edg­ing with stone walls. We’re using cast stones (con­crete) in three col­ors. We’ve done a hand­ful of walls so far.

We did the wall around the bed behind the per­gola last fall as a test. Then we bought 10 pal­lets of stones.

The sea pinks are get­ting ready to bloom (madly) and the lilies are com­ing up. I just have to remem­ber to put down slug bait on a reg­u­lar basis.

I’ve put a bunch of herbs in this bed as well. It’s con­ve­nient to the kitchen. There’s a space in the mid­dle for basil. Which I’ll put in when I get the toma­toes later in June.

We did the wall around the bird bath bed last week­end. Once up on a time there were some 40 or 50 tulips in this bed. Five years later we got a poor show­ing of three blooms. Tulips just don’t last.

The only thing that stayed in this bed are the peonies. Mostly it’s peren­ni­als, cro­cisima, ox-eye daisies, geums, and the like. The lit­tle tri­an­gle in the front has a few annu­als. Cal­en­dula for color and stocks for fra­grance. Usu­ally I put nico­tiana in the front of the house but this year I’m try­ing stocks.

BTW the word­press dic­tio­nary is woe­fully igno­rant of plant names.