Fall Gardening

We brought back another load of stuff from Wisconsin, so I have boxes laying around the house again. I'm working on unpacking them all.
This week, I have focused my creative energies on creating a small flower bed. I couldn't go any longer without some sort of garden!


I picked a little corner close to the house. I dig slow. Here's the start of it.


All dug out, with weed barrier and border in place. I've left a very old rosebush and a new butterfly bush. The rosebush has been there as long as I can remember, from my own childhood. I hope it survives and blooms again next summer. The butterfly bush was a housewarming gift from my Aunts.


Here it is ready for planting. I had to get something! I planted some purple asters at the center, near the butterfly bush. I put in the yellow mums to get a border started at the bottom, something to hold in the mulch. I had forgotten about that bottom edge when I bought my edging bricks. I think a row of short plants should work fine there.

I've got bulbs to plant later this fall, and an order of yellow and red-orange roses arriving hopefully at the end of September. Yes, of course I am going to over crowd it!

A big thanks to all of the neighbor kids who helped me break up clay dirt chunks, spread sphangum moss, spread mulch, and carried plants for me.