Garden Diary - My Experimental Triangle Garden

A few years after we moved in, I dug up and created this garden in a corner of our back yard. It's been a work in progress to say the least. Somethings have worked there, others have not. Currently, I have a flowering almond that doing well, some peonies that are FINALLY going to bloom, some gorgeous lupine and foxglove that comes up every year and a couple of knock out roses. Everything else is a crap shoot. So, each year, I usually throw some perennials in to see what's going to take and then fill in with zinnia and cosmos seeds.

Last Monday on my day off, I spent a couple of hours raking out most of the old mulch, planting a couple of new perennials and sowing the flower seeds. Then I covered it all in new cedar mulch.

Here's what the poor garden looked like without any attention. :(

Here's that gorgeous flowering almond. This is another plant along with Hydrangea and Rose of Sharon that I will ALWAYS have in my yards.

I also have some pieces of garden art in this bed.  I bought the large obelisk at our local farmer's market from a local craftsman and the large flower  and cat with wings are from a metal artist from southern Iowa that I bought at a local arts festival.

After a couple hours of attention, the garden looked much better and as the seasons progress, the garden will change and evolve too.

Thanks for letting me share one of my passions.