Re: i'm green and daydreaming

Gene,
this sounds so lovely! you have to promise to post a picture nexr year.
No, make it a few
pictures as we watch the progression.
gillian



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> Date:    Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:59:45 -0500
> From:    GeneBush <genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM>
> Subject: A New Raised Bed
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> Hello to all,
>     I have been working the past two weeks on a new raised bed, with a second one
> being started now. we had about a ton or so of creek stone left over from
> landscaping around the house and wonderful weather.. so what is a gardener to do?
>     The bed is shaped somewhat like a half of a pie, or large capital "C". The
> outside of the C forms the inside of a path with steps going up the hill from
> mid-level to top level in my hillside garden.  That means the bed is a bout 30
> feet from bottom to top, and about 12 to 15 feet deep, and on an incline.
>     I began at the top of the new bed and worked my way down planting. Began with
> 3 hellebore x hybridus that are double blooming blue/black in a large triangle.
> Inside the front of the triangle I planted 3 Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum and
> then from the back, out and around the hellebores I used 4 primula veris. This is
> backed along a rock ledge with 3 Crested ladyferns. next in line is Polygonatum
> "Silver Wings" and they ae underplanted with 6 Anemone nemorosa "Kate Dryden". Now
> we are about midway and I planted a Viburnum "Chicago Luster". Behind the Viburnum
> is another Polygonatum, this one the species curvistylum. Then 2 Dicentra exima,
> with 3 "Astrantia Sunningdale Variegated" following. I have Tricyrtis flava under
> the Viburnum on the down-side of the arrangement and then a yellow cascading grass
> (can't remember the name now) that goes over the rock ledge. Going along the
> bottom edge and following the rocks are Trillium stamenium and Iris gracilipies
> alba alternating and going back up the inside of the bed.
>     Now to arrange the second bed with plants.....
>     Is life great, or what?
> Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
>           around the woods - around the world
> genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
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