We have folks putting new siding on our house today . . . thankfully it's on the side where there are only rock beds, because I get annoyed when people work on our house and smash my beds. When we moved here, eight years ago, the flower beds were, well, not even flower beds. Everything was covered in white rock, pieces of wood and assorted wagon parts. The couple living here was (is) quite elderly and she could no longer keep up with the flowers. Each year I've slowly worked on the beds, pulling out grass, taking out rocks, moving dirt and adding perennials. This year, August and I have been working quite a bit on what we refer to as our fairy garden bed.
I thought maybe for a little fun, I'd take you on a tour of my flower beds. They are nothing fantastic - I don't profess to be a landscaper by any means, but thinking about now versus what they looked like in 2002 . . . they make me smile.
This is our fairy bed. If you look closely, you'll see a little green, singing fairy.

This year, August and I added a rock wall. We needed to move the rocks away from the house to paint the foundation (groan - I feel like I'll never get that project done!) so we used those rocks to make a wall along the bed.


August figured the fairies must live right under the gigantic hosta, so we made a fence with a gate for them.

And we're working on a path that leads right up to their home . . .

Right now, this bed is our favorite, but we have others!


Most of the "ornamentals" in our beds we rescued from basements, dumps and thrift stores. I wait to buy flowers when they go on sale in July for next to nothing. I'm sort of a cheap gardener! Hope you've enjoyed the tour of some of our beds.
Happy dirt-digging.