Planting Beds

Some new flowers have popped up in the yard, they’re pretty neat looking and purplish in color with dark bluish veins through the petals.  The flower has 5 points and the petals are all one piece, not individual petals.  The middle of the flower is white with a blue bulb at the tip.   I managed [...]

Continue Reading Some New Flowers Popped Up

Tags: flowers, planter, Planting Beds

I did a bit more searching to find out what the plant in the below picture is as I have a couple of them in the front planter.  According to the info I could find they are called Peonies and the ants just like the sugar and stuff that comes off the buds.  I’m not [...]

Continue Reading Budding Plant with Ants Identified

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The planting beds were in serious need of help.  They had both been overgrown with weeds, moss and other things.   We raked them both out and picked out rocks, etc.  They will probably need to be weeded in a week or two though since you never get everything with just a rake.  The narrow and [...]

Continue Reading Cleaning out the planting beds

Tags: Herbs, Interlocking Bricks, Moss, Planting Beds, Rake, Veggies, Weeds