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We built a raised flower bed this last weekend. My subdivision is built on what was literally just five years ago a cow pasture, so the ground is, er, very fertile, but the trouble is that the top layer is red clay. Which means that either you have to till it regularly to loosen the soil, or do a raised bed.
So we built the bed, and then unloaded a truckload of dirt into it. We need another truckload before we can get planting in it, but it's almost ready to go.
I also have some devil's trumpets I was seeding, and they had grown enough to into their own pots, so I separated out the seedlings. Once the flower bed is ready, I'm putting the mature devil's trumpet in, along with at least one of the angel's trumpets. I've got some butterfly bushes in a small flower bed under a window, but I didn't realize how big the bushes got, so I"m going to move those into the new flower bed, which leaves room for me to move some daylillies into the window bed, along with a bunch of petunias (my favorite!).
The funniest thing about the new flower bed is how the cats are enjoying it. They love rolling in the dirt! I have a bird feeder not far from the new bed. It's been there a while, and the cats have never bothered the birds, so far as I can tell. But now, the cats are "hiding" on the inside of the bed, behind the landscape timbers, and just staring at the poor birds.
I don't think the cats would know what to do with a bird if they got one. And some of those birds are MEAN. I just don't want to clean up carcasses.
So we built the bed, and then unloaded a truckload of dirt into it. We need another truckload before we can get planting in it, but it's almost ready to go.
I also have some devil's trumpets I was seeding, and they had grown enough to into their own pots, so I separated out the seedlings. Once the flower bed is ready, I'm putting the mature devil's trumpet in, along with at least one of the angel's trumpets. I've got some butterfly bushes in a small flower bed under a window, but I didn't realize how big the bushes got, so I"m going to move those into the new flower bed, which leaves room for me to move some daylillies into the window bed, along with a bunch of petunias (my favorite!).
The funniest thing about the new flower bed is how the cats are enjoying it. They love rolling in the dirt! I have a bird feeder not far from the new bed. It's been there a while, and the cats have never bothered the birds, so far as I can tell. But now, the cats are "hiding" on the inside of the bed, behind the landscape timbers, and just staring at the poor birds.
I don't think the cats would know what to do with a bird if they got one. And some of those birds are MEAN. I just don't want to clean up carcasses.