Future Affairs:"The Grand Scheme"
...wherein ebinla transforms her pathetic 'container garden' into a luxurious vegetable oasis consisting primarily of raised beds.....
Drumroll please......
I don't know how clearly this picture is conveying my vision. As you can (hopefully) see, this garden design calls for two more half-barrels than I currently have for a total of eight. At the base of each wine barrel there will be a small square border (perhaps made out of 2x4s). This will create little corners at the foot of each barrel where I will tuck decorative and/or useful plants.
These barrels form a square around a raised bed that is set in a diamond shape. This be will be quite tall, around three feet. It will be planted with asparagus. On the other side of the half-barrel square will be rectangular raised beds - about two feet tall.
As you can see from the picture, the front-most raised bed is split in two with what looks in the drawing to be a puce rainbow joining them. This is actually going to be a pergola. Imagine that, my very own pergola!
I actually have a pergola in mind. It is on display at the local antique/vintage/junk store. It is pretty ratty and frail looking - and I think it just what I'm looking for.
DH is staging a protest. He, on principle, tends to object to ratty, junky looking 'used' things. He would prefer a brand new, cedar, pressure treated pergola. I think that such a high falutin' object would make the rest of my garden look sad and very unpressure treated. Whereas, a ratty, junky pergola would make the rest of the garden look pratically regal in comparison!
It's like having ugly bridesmaids.
...wherein ebinla transforms her pathetic 'container garden' into a luxurious vegetable oasis consisting primarily of raised beds.....
Drumroll please......
I don't know how clearly this picture is conveying my vision. As you can (hopefully) see, this garden design calls for two more half-barrels than I currently have for a total of eight. At the base of each wine barrel there will be a small square border (perhaps made out of 2x4s). This will create little corners at the foot of each barrel where I will tuck decorative and/or useful plants.
For poking around the bases of the wine barrels – zinnia, marigolds, chamomile, lobelia, foxglove, nasturtiums, chives
These barrels form a square around a raised bed that is set in a diamond shape. This be will be quite tall, around three feet. It will be planted with asparagus. On the other side of the half-barrel square will be rectangular raised beds - about two feet tall.
As you can see from the picture, the front-most raised bed is split in two with what looks in the drawing to be a puce rainbow joining them. This is actually going to be a pergola. Imagine that, my very own pergola!
I actually have a pergola in mind. It is on display at the local antique/vintage/junk store. It is pretty ratty and frail looking - and I think it just what I'm looking for.
DH is staging a protest. He, on principle, tends to object to ratty, junky looking 'used' things. He would prefer a brand new, cedar, pressure treated pergola. I think that such a high falutin' object would make the rest of my garden look sad and very unpressure treated. Whereas, a ratty, junky pergola would make the rest of the garden look pratically regal in comparison!
It's like having ugly bridesmaids.
