Adjusting the Office Garden

We added a small landscaping project to our to-do list this weekend: 

It was incredibly sunny yesterday, so the photo isn’t great. Hopefully you can see that Kirk added a brick edging to delineate the small flower garden in front of my office. Before, it just kind of blended into the utility yard — and that meant that tons of weeds bled over into the flower garden. Now there are no weeds at all, since Kirk took a hoe to the whole area. 

To keep the weeds out of our hair forever, we’re adding some landscaping fabric and will cover the whole area with wood chips. This will make a nice surface for the area in front of the compost bins and chicken coop, and hopefully any new weeds that pop up will be easy to pull.

The new little wall left some space to plant, so I moved the hosta and black cohosh that used to be along the side wall of the office to the front bed. I also added some pink snapdragons to fill in the gaps. 

From another angle, you can’t even see the new plants, because they’re behind that giant catmint. This plant was small last year, but came back with a vengeance this season. 

I also found some volunteer salvia in the cutting garden, so I moved it over to the office and garage to fill in some gaps where carnations did not come back this year. Between the dark purple stems of the black cohosh and the purple flowers of the salvia and catmint, it looks like this bed is permanently purple in the summertime.