(Flower) Bed Head - Part 2 / Update
Time has slipped away from me like water through my hands, as it often has a tendency to do.
So, here is a brief and very belated update on the flowerbeds.
As I mentioned on the close of my last post, the Lamp Post Bed was giving me the most trouble. With so many of the plants we had chosen now relegated to the backyard, the plan we once had was now void. This Lamp Post Bed has always been a little difficult to manage anyway: it's full sun in a mostly shady yard and the ivy that grows along the post has thick roots that menacingly weave their way through the soil, defying any other plant that dares grow beside it. But I like a good challenge. 😉
Hubs and I went to a local nursery in Newport called J&S Nursery in Newport. It was a beautiful nursery with a huge assortment of fountains, statues, yard furniture as well as plants and home accessories. I've seen little to rival it in eastern NC, not to mention little old Newport. Even if we had not found any plants, we still would have enjoyed visiting.
We looked at a variety of plants. We ended up buying three different daisies, a geranium, and two hypericum. They were really friendly at the nursery and we were pleased with the purchases.
The lamp post bed is essentially 5 sided with the lamp post itself in the corner where the driveway and walkway meet. The lamp post and ivy took up most of the back left corner. On the back right the russian sage and geraniums were planted. In the middle of the bed we alternately planted marigold, hypericum, marigold, daisy, marigold, and hypericum. Because of the odd shape at the end we put one of the geraniums at the end of that row. The front row of that bed consisted of places where the day lilies and shasta daises normally showed up as well as a small row of border grass. The other two daisies put put in pots on the steps to the porch.
Most the plants did okay but the brocade geraniums were fickle and had to be moved. The marigolds, petunias, and mums shaded them out at the driveway bed but they honestly did not fair well anywhere. This is unfortunate because they were beautiful The Russian sage also died early and left a big void that needed to be filled. The daisies never really looked all that great but I have hopes for them perhaps for next year.
Since then we have revisited the beds for the fall as well as planted a full fall garden.
More to come on that soon and certainly sooner than this last post, I hope.
Take care,
Rebecca
So, here is a brief and very belated update on the flowerbeds.
As I mentioned on the close of my last post, the Lamp Post Bed was giving me the most trouble. With so many of the plants we had chosen now relegated to the backyard, the plan we once had was now void. This Lamp Post Bed has always been a little difficult to manage anyway: it's full sun in a mostly shady yard and the ivy that grows along the post has thick roots that menacingly weave their way through the soil, defying any other plant that dares grow beside it. But I like a good challenge. 😉
Hubs and I went to a local nursery in Newport called J&S Nursery in Newport. It was a beautiful nursery with a huge assortment of fountains, statues, yard furniture as well as plants and home accessories. I've seen little to rival it in eastern NC, not to mention little old Newport. Even if we had not found any plants, we still would have enjoyed visiting.
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| Taken from their website |
We looked at a variety of plants. We ended up buying three different daisies, a geranium, and two hypericum. They were really friendly at the nursery and we were pleased with the purchases.
The lamp post bed is essentially 5 sided with the lamp post itself in the corner where the driveway and walkway meet. The lamp post and ivy took up most of the back left corner. On the back right the russian sage and geraniums were planted. In the middle of the bed we alternately planted marigold, hypericum, marigold, daisy, marigold, and hypericum. Because of the odd shape at the end we put one of the geraniums at the end of that row. The front row of that bed consisted of places where the day lilies and shasta daises normally showed up as well as a small row of border grass. The other two daisies put put in pots on the steps to the porch.
Most the plants did okay but the brocade geraniums were fickle and had to be moved. The marigolds, petunias, and mums shaded them out at the driveway bed but they honestly did not fair well anywhere. This is unfortunate because they were beautiful The Russian sage also died early and left a big void that needed to be filled. The daisies never really looked all that great but I have hopes for them perhaps for next year.
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| Blurry but beautiful! |
Since then we have revisited the beds for the fall as well as planted a full fall garden.
More to come on that soon and certainly sooner than this last post, I hope.
Take care,
Rebecca
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