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Category: My Garden Story -- from bad to WOW (hopefully) | Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 11:37 pm

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Hello all. First allow me to apologize for my absence the last few months. It's been a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that I'm working and my personal training business has been booming. The bad thing is that personal training is my second job, hence, I'm working two jobs. Monday through Friday my day starts at 4:30 in the AM. I have two training sessions then leave for my day job. I get home from that around 6:00 PM, grab a bite to eat, change, and run out the door to make it to the gym where I have two to three more training sessions, sometimes going until 8:30 to 9:30 at night. And then I start it all over the next morning at 4:30. Saturday mornings start at 6:30 with two more trainings, and then I run the adult boot camp class (which I absolutely love to do) followed by 13-16 year old sports camp. Sunday morning I spend with God and then do two more trainings, followed by a massage (the massage therapist is one of my clients, so we trade services).

All that to say when it came to gardening, well... there wasn't any. If I could insert a picture of my big crying face I'd have it right here. It just came down to realizing that I simply wouldn't have time to maintain the full garden of my dreams.

But FINALLY (capital F-I-N-A-L-L-Y finally) things have settled down and I'm starting to get some dirt on my hands. Today I tackled the front flower bed.

In the past I've mentioned and beleaguered over the thought of trying to "plan" a flower bed. Forget it. It wasn't happening. So today I steeled myself against self-doubt, went to the nursery, bought a bunch of flowers in different colors and heights and brought them home. When I made my selection I had three criteria --

1) They had to handle full sun. The bed gets the first sun of the day and doesn't get any shade until later in the evening.

2) They had to handle moderate to dry soil. See reason number one.

3) I had to like how they looked. Easy enough.

I decided not to make it hard and just have fun with it. Wait?! Isn't that the whole purpose of it? Is there really any right or wrong to it if I like it? Nope. Go for it V and live it up. Here's the before and after. Nothing dramatic and they're just planted. I can't wait for the blooms, butterflies, and honeybees to start coming.


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Front Flower Bed --- Before ( photo / image / picture from V for short's Garden )



*** After ***

Front Flower Bed --- After ( photo / image / picture from V for short's Garden )


Happy May everyone!!



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waretrop wrote on Sun May 18, 2014 11:50 pm:

Hay V, That is looking good. What kind of plants did yo put in?

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carolyn wrote on Sun May 18, 2014 11:52 pm:

Yay, For V! You put in a long day. I can't imagine the start time every morning! UGGG! I hope your bed is full of flowers and bees in no time at all.

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Netty wrote on Mon May 19, 2014 12:38 am:

Looks great! I hope all your new plants flourish :)

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V for short wrote on Mon May 19, 2014 12:46 am:

Thank you, Carolyn and Netty.

Waretrop. I'm going to see if I can get this right as far as nomenclature goes... I planted Artemesia versicolor "Seafoam", Coreopsis grandiflora "Tickseed", Gaillardia aristata "Arizona Red Shade", and a couple of varieties of Ice Plants. So I have reds, yellows, purples, and greens.

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Frank wrote on Mon May 19, 2014 3:59 am:

That looks great V!

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eileen wrote on Mon May 19, 2014 8:45 am:

Welcome back V.
My what a busy life you're leading now!! I'm glad to hear that your business has taken off and is doing so well for you.
You've certainly made a nice difference to that front bed and, once it's filled out, it' going to look stunning. Do let us see more photographs as it develops and flowers for you.

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