Flower Beds

What I wish my Flower Bed looked like!

I recently asked Gerry to just leave the flower beds to me.  We have different goals and ideas about flower beds.  His idea is always mulch.   It needs mulch, mulch, and more mulch.   My idea is that it needs not to have mulch so it has some soil, and room to breathe without being smothered to death by harsh wood chips.

Since I have now assumed the responsibility, I am going to truly try hard to make weeding a daily activity.  That is what it takes.  In order to remotely have beds that do not turn into weed lots requires a lot of attention.  It does hurt my old aching body, I notice, to bend over and pull, but I'm going to give it my best shot!

Yesterday, Priscilla gave me some dahlias bulbs to plant.  I've never ever grown a dahlia before.  That's because I heard that you have to dig the bulbs up and bring them inside for the winter.  That has always been beyond the pale of my gardening desires.  But the bulbs are now planted, so I will hope to see lovely flowers, and to see if they will survive sleeping in the ground for the winter.

I wanted to plant some annuals this year, but actually there is no room in my flower beds to do that, so instead, I am going to make a vow to weed.  There is yet the vegetable garden to plant;  haven't even thought much about that yet.

I can just hear Gerry's remark a few weeks from now.

 'It needs some mulch!'