Monday 3 January 2011

finishing up the west beds

My goal during the Christmas break was to finish widening the west beds.  This was the last bit to go:
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden10/westbedlast1.JPG
My husband was kind enough to supply some of the hard labour moving the rocks out of the way and into the giant pile of spares.  Although we overloaded my little hand-cart and when it rolled off a step it took a chunk out of one of the wheels. Now it sort of limps along.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden10/westbedlast2.JPG
Then of course I had to decide what to plant there.  In the long-term, I want the vitex in the large bed to grow wide enough to cast shade in that corner.  But in the short-term, the part closest to the camera is heavily shaded and the part farthest from the camera gets a fair bit of sun, making it hard to figure out what to plant across the two beds.  So I decided on an annual, the short-term solution.  It's called Ageratum "China blue", never grown it before but it looked cute in the picture. 
They're still just little seedlings, of course.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/westbedlast3.JPG
As a reminder, this is what it used to look like.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden10/path2a.JPG
The geum is already starting to repeat-bloom, and I'm really happy with how everything's turning out so far!

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