Front Porch Bed - Drainage and Turf Issues - March 2024
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Last Summer (June), I extended and (attempted) to clean up the front edge of our 'front porch bed' along the south property line . The edge had been creeping 'inward' over the years, so I decided to use a shovel to remove as much of the grass as I could, carve off a clean edge and sort-of 'extend' the swoop of that bed a little bit into the lawn. If you look back at the photos in this post , you'll see a nice, grass-free edge that I planted with bedding plants ( dwarf, French Marigolds ) and Dusty Millers . By September, the dwarf (French) Marigolds took off and filled in the new border. They looked great and were thick/full of oranges, reds and yellows . Behind those annuals went a colony of Summer Beauty Alliums . Backed by some small Green Velvet Boxwoods to extend the existing short hedge of boxwoods. All was good last year. This year, I've already started to clean up this bed - cutting down grasses and rakin...