New flowerbed has been added along the fence, June 2017. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
New flowerbed has been created.
Late last year we created two new flowerbeds along the fence, That turned out well. Already then we thought we might create a third flowerbed, as there were enough space for it and it looks nice with plants along the fence. Just looking at the fence isn’t all that exciting. Both I and my neighbour can see those flowerbeds from our flats. So last week I started digging.
Digging for new flowerbed. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
The worst with digging for a new flowerbed is to get the grass off. That is hard work.
New flowerbed. Digging done. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
Next step was to create a border around the new flowerbed and to add fresh nourishment and earth.
New flowerbed. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
To create the border around the flowerbed was no problem as we had collected quite a lot of nice round stones for this purpose not that long ago. We had to go buy fresh earth though. Nourishment (earth with cow-dung) we had half a sack so that was added first. Then the fresh soil. And then plants.
Plants to be moved. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The next step was to decide which plants to have in the new flowerbed. Two of our alumroots/heuchera had long begged to be moved to a place where they would get more space to grow. They com ein a lot of colors and we have four of them in different colors. Two of them had so far grown just to the right of the lambsears (above). So those two I dug up and moved to the new flowerbed. You see the green one at the back and a purple green one at the front in the picture above. Now the lamb’s ears can spread even more…
The heuchera gone from the flowerbed. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
It looks perfectly normal without the heuchera here in this flowerbed.
Heuchera before it was moved. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The above purple alumroot/heuchera also needed to be moved as it was slowly disappearing under the hosta at its side. so I dug that up as well.
Alumroot removed from the flowerbed. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
After the third heuchera was dug up I added some stones at the backside of the flowerbed and some sticks in it as there are plenty of bulbs for springflowers in the ground and I don’t want the cats to dig them up. I also dug up some of the anemone sylvestris that had spread to that same area and moved them as well to the new flowerbed. I also dug up some Japanese anemones (anemone hupehensis) that had disappeared under the largest hosta outside the patio where it would get no light.
The new flowerbed. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
When the planting was done and watering too it looked like in the picture above. The sad plants top the left are the Japanese anemones. There is space left top the right of them as they have a tendency to spread out if they like the place where they grow. They didn’t like being moved though and leaves immediately wilted.
The new flowerb3e3d 2017-06-14. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
One of the alumroots also hung at first after being replanted. It has recovered since though and today looks just as fine as the other two alumroots. The Japanese anemones look very sad though but I think they are still alive. Keeping an eye on them… I will have to cut off the leaves I think, but I will wait a few more days before I do. It might help them recover though.
Three flowerbeds along the fence.
So, now there are three flowerbeds along the fence. Much nicer to look at than just the fence and the grass. The two we created last year are coming along just fine and looks like in the pictures below. All plants in them have been moved from the long flowerbed along the wall of the house, which got too crowded over the years.
One of the flowerbeds along the fence. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
This one (called number two…) got some new plants this spring, to the left of the left astilbe.
Flowerbed number two. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
I added two ajuga reptans (with nice blue flowers) that creeps along the earth and spreads. Have to keep an eye on those so they don’t take over the entire flowerbed. If it grows too much, I’ll move some of it to another location. I also added two other plants with yellow flowers which are low and can stand dry and poor circumstance. They have flowers now, but not the entire season.
Flowerbed number one along the fence. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
In flowerbed number one (closest to my flat) the plants are coming along fine as well. They have grown a lot the last couple of days and have changed quite a lot since I shot this picture. The three green plants at the upper right will become quite tall later in the season. They just now started growing.
Otherwise… everything is growing with an amazing speed and all is green and lush. I love this season. Summer is here.
Summergarde, 2017-06-17. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
