Island Bed

Approximately ten feet from the Back-of-the-House-Border is what I call the Island Bed. At least it was an island when we moved here. Since then I've removed a few feet of sod at the far end of it between the bed and the azaleas skirting a pine tree. The resulting shape makes it more a peninsula than an island.

I will try to give you views in different seasons....
I am fortunate those years when I can find college students to help me (in the red hat) give it a good cleaning before spring. I like to wear the red hat during cold weather; I think it makes me easier to find when a student is looking for me. Sometimes, I am way off down the hill or over on the steep bank or in the farthest corner.


... and from different directions.

Growing in the bed is a mélange of herbaceous perennials, spring bulbs, biennials, and hardy annuals.





Now we go across that small stretch of grass toward the Back Border. There in the glare of a rising April sun, is a small arbor.
That will be our next stop.

Do you have the feeling that we are being followed?!

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