Re: beginner

Hi Michelle,
I hope you're not new to Wisconsin; all this Green Bay Packer mania may
frighten you away!
If I had new flower beds to work with, I would get the soil tested ( our
extension services are great), weed, snoop around town in other people's
gardens all next spring, summer, and fall to see what looks good and is
doing well (make as many local gardening friends as possible; they hand
out divisions of stuff  when they do their gardens),  check out local
nurseries (not K-Marts), order catalogs (addresses from here on the
list  and in gardening magazines), read books about perennials from the
local library,  watch your beds next year to see what might be there,
weed, improve the soil with compost, weed, start a compost pile, etc.  
I think a clean slate would be a nice way to start. And you can always
experiment....with perennials, with annuals to hold places for future
perennials, and so on. Be wary of thug plants--once planted, hard to
control or get rid of (I wish someone had slapped my hand years ago when
I planted one ##$%^ goutweed).
-- 
Barb Perna
South WI,  Zone 4


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