I am pretty pleased at how 'green' I'm trying to keep the bed. The edging is composite recycled materials, I used newspapers for weed barrier and Pine instead of Cypress mulch. Some cypress mulch is harvested from the Louisiana Coastline, which protects us from uh...hurricanes.... http://saveourcypress.org/index.php
Anyway, the crape myrtle looks a little twiggy, but I think it did ok with the storm - there are still buds on it so I'm waiting to see how it does. I went to Lowes today to pick up the mulch and see what they had for color - not many choices at all after the hurricane...I guess they all either died or something but I did find a few things to plant.
The new plants I added were:
2 yellow sunfire perennials
some periwinkle flowers
and some mini blue daisies
ps - it always seems like we need to cut our grass when I take these pics....I SWEAR we mow our grass AND weedeat regularly...I just have bad photographic timing. Next time I'll try and take the picture AFTER we mow... :)
2 comments:
It looks really good!! Looks like everything survived Gustav and the new plants look great! Mulching is such a chore, isn't it? And it always takes a second trip to the store to get "just a little more" mulch...
I was just taking a couple photos for an update as well!
Gee thanks!
I'm anxious for the plants to get big now...(I'm so impatient!:)
I'm looking forward to seeing your update as well. I bet it's gorgeous. How'd that other bed ever turn out? Oh - and your veggies...still producing?
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