Flower Beds

The flower bed above is the first one we created two years ago when we finished the sidewalk. The flowers are doing pretty well but a few of the little shrubs are in trouble. They aren't dead yet, but they only have a little green on them.

Last fall we planted most of the flowers at the end of the walk. This year we outlined the bed with the pavers and mulched it heavily. After our trip to the nursery at Pall Mall over the weekend we added six more perennials to the bed.

I went out this morning and used a flat blade shovel to edge the new flower bed. I piled the grass I removed into piles and scraped the dirt as level as I could. Linda came out and we loaded the Mule with the pavers we needed and finished lining the bed. Then we went around the outside of the bed and scraped the extra dirt up and shoveled it into a bucket. Linda filled some gullies with the dirt. We quit for lunch and then mowed everything on the other side of the road. Linda had to work at the day care from 2:30 to 5 PM. Then we talked to Regina about her going to Louisville to have a couple of stints placed in arteries near her heart on Tuesday.