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I set out to get one large project (deck bed) done this summer before I moved on to any other. Well, I got the deck bed done (largest plants only, that is) AND I made a second bed and planted it, too!

Here's the deck bed - From left to right across the bed, I've got a wild lilac, the stewartia, spring boquet viburnum, red twig dogwood, another viburnum, another dogwood, a flowering currant, and another viburnum. I also bought two clematis (both were supposed to be bare root in a little plastic bag) and the only non-soil object in the dirt was this one tiny sad little root segment. I planted it and we'll see what happens, but geez, I payed $12 for that?

 It looks so sorrowfully empty in this pic. In reality, I was worried that at their mature size, the plants will be crowded one day! Each viburnum, red twig dogwood, and the currant is supposed to get to be 8' by 8'. The wild lilac tags say 4' by 4', but the two we've had in the ground for a few years now are much bigger than that, so I don't know.

And, I didn't use all the viburnum, redtwig dogwood or wild lilac that I bought, so I decided to put them in the bed I built next to the shed. I also transplanted a lilac I'd been saving in a temporary bed into this one. Here's the finished product:

Now, for perennials. For the deck bed, I searched Home Depot and Fred Meyer for coneflower, aster and stella d'oro daylilies. No luck. I DID find some evergreen candytuft at Fred Meyer that I thought might make a nice groundcover layer for this bed. But, I didn't buy it. I want to see some other choices first.

Well, I'm pooped. I hope the weather next weekend is as nice as this weekend. I got SO much done.