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Here is the beginning of my new boxwood bed. The first thing I did was buy the Lutyens bench!
That was my inspiration!

Then I marked it off & murdered the grass!

Then we put down the frame work & I bot the trellis.

Ta da!

The small boxwood are Morris Midgets (68 of them). They only get 15" x 12". The three tall boxwood behind the bench are Dee Runks & will be 2' wide & 10' tall. The smaller box on each end are Justin Brouwers.

Now to wait for spring to plant many annuals!

Just had to show a pic of my baby guineas & mama. They were hatched at the rose garden.

Yes we now have 40 baby guineas from 2 mothers. And no, I have no idea what we will do with 40 guineas! LOL!

Thanks for looking!

Another feast for our eyes in the making!! Yippee!!! You do such wonderful work in your yard. Love those guineas. Just think of all the bugs they'll be eating..

Patty,

Love your new project planter! Nice to see it happen step by step. Have fun with the annuals. It would be hard to decide which ones. I admire your "Get it done" attitude when you build something new for your gardens.

The little babies are adorable. Good luck with them all!

68 boxwoods? My back aches for you Your new area will be a nice place to take family photos next Spring. Love the guineas.

Let's all encourage and admire her hard work and talent. Then we should set up a scheme to get her over to our places to work her magic on our gardens.

PatttyLouise, you can always eat the guineas if you need start population control . In the meantime they eat those nasty ticks you have be careful of outdoors.

Dinner anyone? I'll cook. Hey PL here's link to recipes on BBC's site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/guinea_fowl
I'm not entirely certain linking a English cooking site is helping my reputation as someone who knows how to cook considering the the way British cuisine is viewed.

Wish I lived over there! What fun your always having! Your grounds are so special & love that you continue to enrich them! Will look forward to how they progress of course! Those babies are DARLING!!! Don't let them hear you talking about recipes! LOL

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you can always eat the guineas if you need start population control

OMG I am LOL! DH will love this!

Florida Farm Girl & Still Tryin these little guys are great bug eaters! Makes me think that if I eat them, I will be eating bugs? Yuck!

Georgia Peach my best GF (who for 6 months now has beat stage 3 ovarian cancer) helped me get them all planted. It wasn't too bad as we were chatting the whole time!

Beau once I get a plan in my head I am full speed ahead!

Muddy as long as I can see grass in the yard - I have more planting options!

Thank you all so much!

I'm lovin' it. And the chicks, too.

Thanks MGT!

I can't decide what color flowers to plant. I have ordered some white jonquils for spring. Was going to do only white flowers - but I have changed my mind. May just do 2 colors. I am going to plant a moon flower vine on the trellis. Thinking maybe pink & purple inside the boxwood & around the trellis.

Suggestions welcome!

WOW what a lovely inviting sight!! You and DH and GF do great work together. Would love to see your whole property!! Thanks for sharing your works with us!!

Well, I thought I was tired before, but now I'm wore out!
It looks fantastic! Love that you are putting a moon flower in the center. That should smell wonderful at night!
If you keep this up, your DH won't have anything to mow...bet he will be tickled!

Your chicks are cute! What about selling some? Is there any kind of sale barn in your area?

In case anyone cares those baby guinea fowl are called keets, not chicks.

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from ga.karen If you keep this up, your DH won't have anything to mow...bet he will be tickled!

That's exactly what I think! LOL! I'm going to plant the moon flower seeds - I hope they do OK. I love that plant! We do have several friends who are going to get some of the guineas. They are such beneficial birds for the yard.

Thank you Silly Bird! We do work good together!

Why do you want us to stop you??? It looks fantastic! Can't wait to see it with flowers/

lovely, patty. it will be beautiful with flowers and especially with moon flower growing up the trellis. looking forward here to more pictures.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by thebrownthumb:
Why do you want us to stop you???

Well, I'm not getting any younger & I continue to set myself up for more plantings & work. But I just can't seem to stop! I so enjoy it! I am now already looking forward to spring so I can plant inside of the boxwood!

Thank you Bana! I may also add a clematis on the trellis to bloom in the spring.

i think we share something with many if not all of the gardeners on this board... and that is the need to create. so stop you? and deprive this world of even more beauty? sorry but i just can't do that.

a couple years ago i got this lame brained idea that 1) i was tired of paying for new flowers every spring and 2) it would be good to put in shrubs so i wouldn't have any more hard work to do. my garden would be 'done'. well, shrubs did not satisfy my love of a variety of flowers.. and i found that my neighbor was willing to do the digging that i can no longer do myself. so here i am, creating again.. and like you, loving every minute of it.

And I just completed building 2 beds at either end of our property along the road...they are about 24'X 8-10'. Each bed already had an 8' picket fence panel there and on one end of each is a pampas grass. Behind the fence panel is a beauty berry bush.
Going to be moving some lantanas to the other end of each...they are being crowded out where they are...and then I get to fill it in as I go this fall & next spring.
I know I have some day lilies that will go out there and maybe a couple of other things that are started in my garden house...if they live through the winter.

And Patty, I'm older than you are!!!

i moved the lavender out of the front circle to the back one and moved all my iris into the front one...
moved the lavender again from the back circle to a temporary hole...
moved the oriental lilies, foxglove and astilbe to the back circle...
left room in it for bleeding hearts next spring...
planted yellow primroses around the edge of the back circle for autumn color...
moved the lavender to the long L bed for now...
planted a veggie garden of kale & lettuces where the iris were...
and had roby move the apple tree...
all so i can make a bed for seeds of larkspur, coneflower and columbine from sorie10.,,
and mostly all in the last 3 weeks.

and ga.karen, I'm older than both patty and you are!!!

Yes we all must love creating! You all have made me feel like I haven't actually lost my mind! LOL!

Karen you made 2 more beds? You are ahead of me. I must take a walk outside & see what I can do next! Be sure to take pictures!

Bana I am so LOL! My DH thinks that I am the only person that digs up & moves plants around! You have been very busy!

Gardening will keep us young!

I love the new boxwood garden, very nice! The hen and her babies are precious. I sure hope when DH gets his chickens that the dogs will get along with them.

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Karen you made 2 more beds? You are ahead of me. I must take a walk outside & see what I can do next! Be sure to take pictures!

Patty, but I did it the easy way. I laid newspapers over the grass & covered them with about 4-6" of mulch. This is mulch from our piles in the front yard that I need to get used so DH can level that area out with the tractor & blade & I can plant some crab apple trees there. I did have to put landscape timbers along the front & sides to keep everything from washing out cause both beds are on slopes. But I hammered in some metal rods to hold them in place. And everyone can laugh at me...I measure with my feet...so many steps this way, so many steps that way...feet-end to end! I already know that with shoes, my feet are about 11"!

My goodness grandma - what big feet you have
Cute way to measure! I do that myself.

Patty Louise - absolutely love the new bed. From what I could see in the photo's the rest of the garden ain't shabby either....and those guineas. I love guineas. How do you keep the foxes away from them, do they roost inside a pen at night? They are awesome as tick pickers......and I could sure use all 40 of your babies.

Anxious now for spring to see what else you create in that space.!!

ve

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My goodness grandma - what big feet you have

That's only a size 8!

OMG you have been busy! It looks great!

If I were close to you, I'd come and get some those babies. DH is just d ying to get some chickens and "those funny looking birds" (his words LOL). If they eat ticks, I'm all for it.

I haven't been in the yard in weeks, and it shows. Oh, well, maybe this weekend to clean up.

If I ever do another bed (LOL) I am going to use the newspaper trick!

Thank you Vera! We have the guineas in pens for now. We will let them out in the spring but we always pen them up at night for safety.

Thank you Wanda! I wish you could come & get some guineas! We do have several people that want some once they get bigger. They are great birds & so strange looking!