Starting over…is hard!

 

So this is one of those…. I did something stupid in my garden moments…. This was my little triangle garden by the front walk last summer, pretty right?  Well… at some point I had an insane idea to put some white yarrow seed in “a few places” for “FILLER”…. omg…. what a mess!

Look at the mess I had in Early May!  It was so matted and dense you the lilies cannot even get through.

So I took a shovel to the whole bed…. and pitched yarrow like weeds as soon as the tulips were done blooming.

This is a bad picture, but for many weeks there was nothing in this prime spot bed except for the roses in the corners…tiny little bits of green…. coming up from my seeds…. Patiently waiting…. and waiting…..thinking is it going to be ready in time?  I did buy a few 4 inch pot perennials, but for the most part…. I waited……

For this!  It has exploded this week, just in time for the garden tour.  The lilies are shorter than normal, but all blooming.  Here is a close up of the double pink knockout roses…. they are so pretty.  They are new for me this year, I put three in this bed and you can really see them as you drive up.

I did leave a bit of the yarrow, and now it looks nice…. not invasive…. but I will be pulling it out again before next spring.  I will leave a bit, but it spreads soooooo fast.  There is also white saliva, catmint, a new white lavender, reblooming iris, peonies, French hollyhocks, catchfly and pinks planted in this triangle. 

So here it is last year…. those roses were getting too big and I moved them to a new area….but you can see a bit over grown…..and really only two plants that bloomed all summer…..

To this…. a nice mix of color and some of my very favorite things.  It smells wonderful too as you walk by.  I just couldn’t be happier with how it has turned out…. Change is good!

Happy Gardening…..Brooke