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May 15, 2008 | 8:17 PM PST
Tags: new beds , lilly , zinnia
As I have mentioned on previous blogs, Wayne has been hard at work in our yard, cleaning up and sprucing up. Here are some pictures. The first is of the overgrown azaleas that he pruned up (they were getting snakey looking). We will kill off the ivy-english and poison- and probably plant some annuals under there for color.
Next is a lovely pink lilly growing up through the butterfly bush (which is getting tiny buds!!!)
Next is the bed beside the driveway. Once it had only stella daylillies, which was fine, but I needed more. Now we have the lillies, salvia, pepper, tomato,zinnias, a rose,yarrow,hollyhock and an angel trumpet.
Next is a picture of the fence line that had the daylillies, monkey grass and cannas. It took Wayne a while to get it thinned out and cleaned up. It isnt mulched yet and may be hard to see, but it looks so much better and will get more plants as the summer goes on. On the other side, you can see that we will be making another bed by the side of the pool
Last is a nice blue salvia that something (dog, cat , wind) tore about half of it off. We saved a piece and stuck in the ground and it looks like it has taken.
I am calling this "The Year of the Zinnia". Last year we started some from seeds. They were mostly pink and lavender with a few orange and yellows. I would deadhead them and drop the seeds in all of my beds. And during spring clean up this year, I scattered packs of seeds. I have so many seedlings. Some are even in the grass. Oh I can not wait to see their pretty little faces. Mostly I grow lilliput and thumbelina. Even with those types, they grow really big.
Peace and love and happy gardening.
