This Busy Mom
04-18-2006, 05:48 PM
I went to the organic herb farm www.mulberrycreek.com today and spent way too much on plants. I don't know how much they cost me, but one of my favorite things I got was 2 lovely looking (medicinal) aloe plants. I also got an elderberry bush which I didn't realize was varigated so it's going to be a pretty (10' high and probably about as wide) bush.
Most of the plants around my house are herbal or edible. I have a few flowers, but I would rather have stuff I can use, or plants native to the area. I've run out of room on the sunny side and the front of the house, so I'm digging up a patch behind the garage now for things like garlic and maybe asparagus or rhubarb... I'm not sure yet. My dh is putting in a new fence this spring and after that's done, I'll have more places to put in beds. I have a side of my house that is full shade all the time, so I think that will become a woodlands garden (not this year, though). That's going to take a bit of research. The lady at the herb farm had lots of ideas... but she was rattling them off faster than I could digest information ;) . I'm going to take Alison back to make her own fairy/miniature garden in a pot, so I'll ask again then.
Tomorrow the hostas come out (I'm not particularly fond of them). I haven't figured otu what to relace them with, though :scratch . I got some violets to put in the front of the bed.
Most of the plants around my house are herbal or edible. I have a few flowers, but I would rather have stuff I can use, or plants native to the area. I've run out of room on the sunny side and the front of the house, so I'm digging up a patch behind the garage now for things like garlic and maybe asparagus or rhubarb... I'm not sure yet. My dh is putting in a new fence this spring and after that's done, I'll have more places to put in beds. I have a side of my house that is full shade all the time, so I think that will become a woodlands garden (not this year, though). That's going to take a bit of research. The lady at the herb farm had lots of ideas... but she was rattling them off faster than I could digest information ;) . I'm going to take Alison back to make her own fairy/miniature garden in a pot, so I'll ask again then.
Tomorrow the hostas come out (I'm not particularly fond of them). I haven't figured otu what to relace them with, though :scratch . I got some violets to put in the front of the bed.