Flowers have never had much priority in my gardens. I love growing fruits and vegetables but I also love pretty flowers. There are only so many hours in a day and the vegetable garden takes about all the energy I can muster but yesterday I was wishing for a few flowers and decided to make myself a little flower garden.
Kinda out in the middle of the yard are these two 4 x 8 raised beds. I figured I could put one small bed along the 8′ south side of one, and another one on the north side of the other bed.
Vince was busy in his shop and I was determined to do this on my own. but he came out and used long nails to keep the two landscape timbers stacked and, since we’re going to have a lot of rain coming up, I just covered it all with straw and will plant after the rains stop. Some will be seeds and some will be plants.
These will have a few flowers but they will mostly be my “apothecary” garden. I will plant feverfew, “self heal”, astralagus, lemon balm, comfrey, yarrow and calendula. I may end up digging up at the ends of beds and planting a few other plants. I would love to plant borage but I will probably plant that in pots so I can move them around to wherever I’m having but issues. I would also like to have asters and zinnias but I don’t want to take on too much. During June and July, it’s about all I can do to take care of the vegetables.
JanetB says
My late husband loved zinnias. He planted them almost every year and cut them to put on the table.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
That’s exactly what I was thinking . . flowers on the table but I would also love to go outside and lots of pretty flowers. I’ll be happy with just a few.
Christine in AZ says
I’m not a flower grower either, but last year I had so few bees that I will plant some lavender and marigolds in hopes of tempting more bees to my garden.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
We definitely need to entice the bees and provide food and water for them. We have fruit trees, just had redbuds and now dogwoods bloom. I know the bees liked the redbuds and I assume they like dogwoods but am not sure. They also come around for blooming veggies but I think if I were a bee, I’d rather be sucking on nectar from flowers! 🙂