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Recycled Flowerbed

1/24/2011

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I have wanted to make a start in the garden for a few weeks, there was just the small matter of waiting for all that snow to melt off. I know we started the parking hole but quite frankly I'm a girl and a huge muddy hole, though useful really isn't very inspiring or pretty!
So I decided to make a start on the flower bed I had planned for up by the cottage, it started off a juts another bit of enormous lawn (there is a crazy amount of lawn in our garden!) and seeing as we had all this luscious top soil (about 3 tons of at the moment!) it seemed a good way to use a little of that up.
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I started off by laying out the size and shape of the bed with some lovely old recycled bricks we had lying around (I think the bricks where used in the front of houses as they are slightly shaped and glazed), I then forked the ground, it is too full of roots from the box hedging to dig properly. I then carried by hand the soil up the hill from where we dug it out of the huge hole, yep thats right by hand! I think my arms are now a foot longer than they where (this is what happens when the wheel barrow has a flat tyre and our bike pump has been nicked!) once this was finally done I could get on with the best bit, planting up a few plants we got on offer from the supermarket!
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We have various coloured Primroses and purple foxgloves now it, also some perpetual Sweet-peas I had in a tub last year. I going to order the rest of my flowers from Victoriana Nursery Gardens in the next few days, so the bed should fill up for summer. As you can see I have also added our little bent metal fence along the edge, which looks so cute. I am really proud of my little bed (the first of many I hope!) Fingers crossed for our own home grow cut flowers for the summer.
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Wendy
2/1/2011 12:30:16 am

Have enjoyed reading your blog. I stumbled across it when searching for gardening on a shoestring.
Good luck with everything your setting out to do. :)

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