At first, there was a cutting garden. It was meant for Amy to have a constant supply of nice flowers to arrange into bouquets. The idea, of course, was that Amy would select and grow these nice flowers. As with many good intentions, it didn't quite happen this way, so that I usually wound up making the selections for what to grow in this plot. Almost all annuals, but not exactly your standard cutflowers... Some (like nigella) self-seed with abandon, others start taking up jungle aspirations by the end of the season. So for years, it was more fun than functional, and that was OK.
Some years ago, I decided the cutting garden concept had run its course, and I undertook a project to expand both the cutting garden and the herb garden (which had occupied a similar lobe just a bit further back along the edge of the yard), so that they combined into a new "curve garden". The two former gardens still exist as distinct lobes, but they are connected in the center, where a large boulder left over from the construction of our swimming pond holds court. The concept of the new garden was fairly simple: it would hold sun-loving flowers, whose former places in the garden were slowly but surely becoming shadier as trees grew larger. Nothing too formal, but definitely with some planning and organization. As usual, the latter hasn't really come through, so that the curve garden is still almost as wild a place as the cutting garden was. But I still hold out hope that it will become that sweet colorful border that I envisioned – one of these years.
Currently growing in the front lobe of the curve gardenCurrently growing in the back lobe of the curve garden
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June 17, 2015 |
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