Wow....what a long winter this year! I finely was able to start cleaning out our flower beds this weekend, untill the rain started to make it too miserable. I am always amazed to see the new green sprouts popping up, it's almost magical, it warms my heart to see the growth and renewing that happens each spring! I was looking at the gardens and thinking how I can plant things different this year to give wow facter and ease of maitance for watering. As the gardens have grown over the past 7 years I have two river birches that make growing plants under them impossible now. I am open for suggestions if anyone has ideals that would look pretty and low maintance. I have tried many type of plants and due to the trees drinking too much of the water with their shallow surface roots I can't seem to keep things looking good the whole summer. The plants look good in the begining of summer and then they just don't grow more in size and often die from lack of water, the roots won't spread due to the roots from the river birches. I try to water almost every day because of this issue.
I have gone to putting pretty ceramic clay potts in the gardens to give punches of color under these trees. I love clusters of intense color and miss being able to create that under these trees!
This winter has really cause some challenges to clean up in our gardens and yard, all that snow has saturated our gardens and yard, leaving alot of errosion. I am thinking about ways to make my natural bed look like a rock -drybed to help with all of this natural water flow....may be fun project this summer. I hope everyone is enjoying the spring and all its splendor. Have fun!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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