Compost and Mulch

Secrets of a beautiful, low-work garden

Today ’s garden belongs to Julie Hammond . She write :

I am an avid nurseryman in Peoria , Illinois , expand plantings with divisions and markdowns . I learn the toilsome means that compost and mulch are the secret to a great garden . mass think I go really hard , but most of my body of work is done by the end of May . The rest of the summer , I just irrigate the flock .

This is a picture of my front garden , taken in June 2018 . While I ’ve last in the star sign 27 years , this garden was put in about 2011 after we had geothermal H. G. Wells dug in the front yard . The Nipponese maple on the left was a $ 6 markdown put in about 1993 . It might have been improbable , but my boy kept jumping off the porch and breaking the leader . I have a Hopi crepe myrtle(Lagerstroemia indica‘Hopi ’ Zones 6–9 ) near the brick - and - concrete - base on balls intersection on the left . While it dies back most eld , it add up back strong and is a novelty in the surface area . The short green shrubs in front of the porch are deutzia ‘ Chardonnay Pearls’(Deutzia gracilis ‘ Duncan ’ , Zones 5–8 ) . In a few more weeks , the hang baskets will be dripping with flowers .

The west seam , planted with hostas , was the first in after the dog wore a dirt way of life along the fence . It has been widened a few times but has never performed as well as the north and east beds , as those were amended with multiple truckloads of compost before set . ( My twins still tell stories about being thrust to push to the landscape painting landfill to fulfill the truck on Saturdays.)View this clause on how to build a brick path .

In the north bottom , perennials luxuriate in soil richly amend with compost .

Ernie the frump posing with the outdoor open fireplace . The open fireplace stone came from an accent paries on a motel from the 1950s–1960s .

Colorful annual flower next to the open fireplace . View this video on how to produce swell container grouping .

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