Garden Pic Wednesday: Garden Bed Clean-up!
Garden beds surrounding my house also run under windows about to be replaced and, you know, workmen aren't delicate walkers when they're doing a job. So, I've been planning how best to protect my flowers. 1) In front of my front bay windows I have a shrub/climbing rose, Easter Lilies and hosta. My plan for that is to just trim back the Hosta bloom stems, cut the Easter Lilies to the ground, then just trim the roses down enough I can place various covers over them. I have buckets & containers suited to the job. 2) The one corner of the kitchen bay window has a Coneflower and 3 daylilies, plus there's some random Easter lilies. My plan for that is to cut the coneflower bloom stems to the ground, then I have a square large enough to cover it and the 3 Daylilies surrounding it. (They're my fancy hybrid daylilies) The Easter lilies can be cut to the ground and there's little else there to be concerned with. 3) The south wall bed pictur...