This spring I got busy and did some tentative shaping of my future flower garden. When we smashed out the second story chimney we had a lot of old chimney blocks. We threw most of them away before I got creative and started using them as a small retaining wall. It required me using a hammer and a chisel to break the blocks up to the piece size that I wanted but it wasn’t that hard. Probably being 70 years old helped in me being able to break the blocks so easy. When we smash out the old chimney on the first floor of the house I am going to continue on with my wall.
When we bought the property it had some retaining wall blocks in the front of the house as a garden bed. As we were clearing out everything in the front the blocks got displaced. I decided to make a raised circle out of them. Right now they have Fuchsia’s growing in it but I think that next year I am going to plant a fern instead. That way the leaves will drape over the blocks better. I plan on putting a matching circle on the other side and it will be the entry way into the pathway leading into the garden.
I am making another raised bed using rocks found around the property. It’s not completed yet either. I have loose tentative plans for another raised bed and a sitting area along with some sort of water feature. I’m not sure what I will use as material for the pathways yet. I haven’t worked on it since the spring as we have been to busy with other projects. I suppose that on a farm a fun garden area may be considered useless. But flower gardening is something I really enjoy and will classify as a hobby. Besides, the area that is designated as my flower garden area would be a hard one to usefully use with animals.
I have put in a few plants and plan on adding some more every year. When this next spring comes along I imagine I will be out there doing some more work in the area. Winter fever has that effect. That and thoughts of playing with new plants and sprucing up the area are very enticing. Then when summer comes I will be bogged down with other important projects. Taking care of my veggie garden takes on more importance too. I have grand dreams for this area and hope they become reality.
