The garden of a busy mom
Today we ’re joining Amanda Benick as she reminisces about last year ’s garden .
Here are some exposure from my first full summer gardening in a unexampled home with a much tumid yard than I was used to . It is right around an acre .
I ’m a somewhat officious person , raise a five - year - previous as a stay - at - home mom for the preceding two - plus long time . There ’s shopping , dinner , books , preschool , play date , and finally at the end of the Clarence Day , horticulture ! I ’ve kept at it well past dark in the summer , just long enough to come out seeing the bat fly overhead . That ’s about the time I quit for the evening . I ’m not a bat person ! I do all my own landscape gardening . I create beds , border , and mini patches by removing sward and adding compost or leaf and then insert some annuals just to get thing go .
to start up creating some rounded , crescent - shaped flower beds around my terrace , I absent some sward and used up the sandy , gravelly soil from the planters that were leave before me . I constitute some play annuals in these two bed just to get things pop out . Since it is dry , gravelly , short soil , I sowedtithonia(Mexican sunflower),nasturtium(jewel , Alaska mixes ) , bright orange cosmos , and all types of marigold . When we moved in there was a makeshift fire pit at the edge , so I made that the “ mint prison . ”
Marigolds ( Tagetes , yearly ) blooming around the patio
Mexican sunflower(Tithonia , yearly )
Close - up of the glowing blossom of Mexican helianthus
Marigolds and Mexican sunflower together . They have similar - colored flowers but dramatically contrast growing habit and leaf .
Bright pink snapdragon ( Antirrhinummajus , annual ) looking gross set all by itself in a complementing Mary Jane .
A bantam fairy garden in a pile , with three fairies beside a magical stream flowing between the plants .
Afuchsiaplant in , fittingly , a fuchsia slew .
Tall , cream - colored marigold blooming by the postbox .
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