Happy Monday all! I hope you have all been enjoying the fantastic weather we’ve been having recently! We decided to take full advantage of it and start our flowerbeds for the spring. If you remember we did our terrace project this fall. My husband got an itch to start tilling up those terraces this weekend on his break from work. I was also off Sunday and Monday so we decided let’s just go for it.
Once the dirt was tilled up we put down a layer of landscape fabric weed barrier. On top of that we put a layer of Preen mulch with weed preventer. As you can tell we don’t enjoy picking weeds! Next we headed to Lowe’s to buy our perennials. We mostly wanted to do flowers and plants that would grow back each year and just a few annuals every season.
We bought the following perennials: Color Guard Yucca, Snow Cone Candytuft, Halo Lilac Viola, Morning Star Deep Rose Sea Thrift, Butterfly Blue Pincushion Flower, Orange Glow Wallflower and we will be getting five May Night Salvia to go in front of each pillar. We are waiting for the salvia to come in and they will be fairly large and lavender in color. We also bought a couple of raspberry bushes and will later plant eight peppers on the south side of the beds. Once we had all of our plants and flowers we measured and laid out where we wanted to put each thing.
Next we hooked up and laid out the soaker hose. We weaved it in and out among the plants then covered it with mulch. We wanted to be able to just turn on the hose and let it evenly water the plants. Last thing was putting in the solar landscape flood lights. We wanted to be able to light up the house and the flowers at night while having the porch lights off.
That’s it! We have a few other things we will be doing throughout the spring and summer and will update as we go. I hope you all enjoy getting outside and planting your own plants and flowers!
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