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Flower Garden 2023

Our first bouquets from
Cut Flower Garden July 14

Dreams of a full-sun Cut-Flower Garden started planning with
January setup the Planting Room

February mark outside area

March start the seeds in trays inside 

April seedlings (photo is not actual seedlings. these are next round of cuttings)

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May 5th clear area, add steppers, plant these delicate seedlings

June 4th first mulching!

July 3rd filling in with some perennials

July 3rd --weeding & new edge timbers

July 21st -- fraction of our weeks harvest

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Bountiful Harvests all Summer (below). 150+ vases given away

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Snow on Halloween ended the great season.
Nov 2 we pulled the Dahlia tubers for storage

Other July Projects : Staircase (before & after)

Shade Garden Expansion at Home

"Before" photos of the shade garden
in the fall of 2019 we wondered if anything would grow in hard clay under the maple so tested out some shared Lamiastrum  

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2020 lots of family ferns and hosta added during Covid
...i think dog groomers were on lockdown

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