Garden Edit - Tree Swing Tree - Hakonechloa Macra Grasses and Summer Beauty Alliums - April 2024
Yesterday, I posted about how as I've matured as a gardener, I'm focusing on garden edits vs additions. In that post, I called our four spots that I'd like to edit - Tree Swing tree, Kitchen Curved, Hosta Replacement and IB2DWs. The first one that I've started with is the Tree Swing tree bed. I was out with my shovel cutting in an edge and took on the edit - starting with finding new homes for some things. My edit criteria are: 1. Work in our yard. 2. Are appealing (to me). 3. Have some four-season appeal. My plan is to feature Hakonechloa Macra grasses (the green ones) and Alliums to start - both of which check all three criteria. Here (below) is the 'before' - the garden edit - where the plants sit currently. Just in the wrong (to my eye) spot: First, I dug up the Seslaria Autumnalis (three of them) and pulled them out. They're moving back in the garden, but that's for a separate post. Below is a photo showing the hol...