The husband said I should post a picture of the (almost) finished garden bed at the front of the house to give you all an idea what it looks like now. SO, here it is:
The 3 daisies at the top of the picture are new. Calvin *directed* his dad to put which one where ….. 🙂 It was hard to plant the daisies at the spot that we wanted because the tree stump from a previous huge liquid amber was still there. The green leafy plants near the daisies are agapanthus which Robin put in last year. They were divided from a batch of agapanthus that Robin picked up by the roadside. The lavender at the right bottom corner has to be my favourite! Believe it or not, it is grown from some cuttings taken from my mother-in-law’s garden. Anyway, we are quite happy with the look of the garden bed now (much neater), although there’s still a little more to it — we are going to put in another plant in the middle (where the pot is in the picture). We are thinking of transferring a frangipani that is still in a pot to the ground. I think it will fit nicely there. By the way, the frangipani is a cutting we took from our first home! Talking about recycling……