Howdy.....I've been
growing flowers in containers in what I like to call a bird garden for a few years now. I've always lived in an apartment till recently and since I had a ground floor apartment I was able to have a garden in the back. I had about 50 - 16 inch plastic containers and five 8'x4' wooden raised beds. Grew various cone
flowers, coreopsis, bee balm, cardinal
flowers, agastache, salvias, rudbeckias, shasta dasies, Joe Pye
weed, sedums and veronicas. Mixed in there were about 30 or so bird feeders of various kinds. We always enjoy watching birds, squirrels, chipmunks and butterflies going about their business amongst the
flowers and feeders, its very relaxing I think. Not many things in life more enjoyable I think than reading a good book sitting with a cup of coffee out by your
flower beds early in the morning and hearing all the birds.
My wife and I recently moved into our first house and I moved about 250 perennials last fall to our new home. I have about 2,800 sq. ft. of beds planted now. I killed the Bermuda grass that was there, brought in about 17 yards of planting bed mix from a local landscape supply, had it all tilled in and then set out my
plants. So far so good, but the first thing I learned was that weeding containers and keeping
weeds outta
flower beds is definately two different things. Been fighting chickweed, henbit, etc. so far...Trying to learn about annual
weeds and how I can manage to keep them at bay....
Looking forward to learning many new things from you folks and maybe being able to help someone else also.