Weekend Project.

Since the new walkway is being finished between the house and the garage, there appeared a wonderful sunny place to create a new flowerbed.  Armando, our wonderful carpenter, took some recycled 2 x 12 boards and framed up the space. This weekend Trish and I finished it off.

Up at the Garden Center there is a place where the tree service people leave all of their wood chips and you can take them for free.  We headed up there with the little truck and got four big trash cans of chips plus nine bags of topsoil and some additional hardwood mulch.

Ready to go.

In the bottom of the bed we had already put several layers of cardboard (courtesy of Amazon!) to keep down the weeds and grass.  The wood chips went on top of the cardboard to make a good drainage base for the bed.  Then the basic topsoil came next.  On the very top came the bags of organic topsoil to finish things off.

Ready for planting.

We have irises that came from Trish’s mom and some other scattered irises.  They will all find new homes in this bed.

At the end of the day we celebrated rest from our labor (in 87 degree humid weather) by putting the top down and going to see the sunset as the evening cooled down pleasantly.  It was a wonderful weekend!