This Week in the Garden

I weeded the front beds last Thursday and planted some Sweet Peas and a tall form of Verbena, transplanted the Spanish lavenders or French? can't remember inside the garden fence and moved around a few other things. In the entry beds, I was thinking of continuing with the blue green varying species border and then right behind it doing a border of a colorful annual, something like red or purple flowering petunias or vice versa.  I think with those two borders around the main planting area, the plantings within the bed will stand out a little more and the bed will seem a little more organized.  I've divided a bunch of perennials so I'm hopeful this year it is going to fill out nicely.  I've also started a Honey Bush plant with striking foliage and flowers, which I plan to plant in the main bed for some added interest.  I am considering planting two Star Magnolias on either side of the gate, but I'm not sure if the space to the left is sufficient.  We'll work it out somehow.  The Star Magnolias were donated by the Humboldt Botanical Garden and are quite mature but have been somewhat dwarfed having been grown in pots.  I pruned back all of the perennials in the main beds and divided one that had been trampled and the new divisions are all doing well. I fed the climbing roses and they are looking lush! I planted my own bed with onions, broccoli, cauliflower, nasturtiums and petunias, I have some potatoes too, but I need to cut them up, perhaps I'll put a few of those in there too. I weeded one of the inside beds with the artichokes today and then planted a few nasturtiums, the small mounding type. I love working in this garden and am really thankful to have such a sweet place in a public park where I can get my hands dirty.