You know how it is. The front garden is getting ratty-looking and as a gift for Christmas you give your Lovely First Wife a complete revamp of the area.
And then you get an email from The Growers Exchange offering 25% off an order for native cultivars, and then you see some interesting-looking herbs that you’ve only read about, and suddenly you’re looking at 50+ plants to get into the ground.
On Saturday I spent all day ripping out the zoysia grass from the planting areas where it had invaded, and then getting most of the plants into the ground. (Half of them haven’t been shipped yet.)
That was oddly satisfying, plunging the blue-handled “weasel” contraption into the soil and wrenching it around so that the grass and weeds were loosened, then ripping them out. I ended up with a huge pile of detritus on the curb. A good gardener wouldn’t allow it to get that bad, of course.
So much grass.
And weeds (although most of the greenery above is actually surviving annuals).
Actually planting the plants takes no time at all of course.
Oooh, clean!
So what all did I plant?
Out front:
In the herb garden:
In the side garden, joining the monster cardoon:
Then there’s the area where we had the privet hedge/wisteria removed. It’s ugly, and so I’ve decided to plant hardy, equally invasive flowers/herbs.
- Already there:
- Soon to be planted
I’ll keep you posted as things develop. In another year, we should be awash in herbs and flowers. If I can remember what everything is for, I could become a regular apothecary.