Setback #2. The expectation was that to prepare this extended flowerbed would be the work of 10 days - 2 weeks. But between rain delays, visitors and life in general intervening the best part of 3 weeks on in this project and we're still only about two thirds of the way complete and would prefer to now be getting on with enriching the soil and starting the planting out.
And on we go ................... But at last we've turned the corner and are now moving fast along the second channel.
Before acquiring the gardening bug I used to find any excuse to avoid going out and doing whatever chores needed tackling. But for the last 20 years since I've really enjoyed creating, planning and planting I just love the whole vibe of working outside. Even when it looks cold and gloomy if you layer up and force yourself out, I don't know, somehow it's just nice to be there enjoying nature and the air even if the jobs you're engaged in aren't necessarily the most scintillating somehow the time just flies away.
The idea here is to develop two distinct beds. One for herbaceous perennials and one for annuals (seasonal bedding) which can be changed, redesigned and replanted every year to get the best variety and summer colour.
The border along the bottom is 30' and the shorter one along the path will eventually end up as 20'.
All told this will involve the painstaking removal of approx. 350-400 individual clods of earth.
You probably don't need to know this but somehow it wants to be stressed as it's been such an intensively arduous process.
No pain - no gain, right?
The payoff of course will come a few months on when all this hard work combines to reveal a riotous kaleidoscope of colour, alive with buzzing bees and dancing butterflies.
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