Monday, November 06, 2006
Garden Tapestry
When I first started gardening, one of the things that I always wanted to have was a mum tapestry garden, with multiple colors of bright chrysanthemums woven together, like a rainbow tapestry. I planted one at our last house (the third of my four gardens), running all along the garage. It would have been spectacular, as I planted perhaps twenty different plants, starting at one end with deep purple, then reds, oranges, yellows, and finally whites. Alas, we moved to our present house just as it was filling in. Our present garden is, of course, a shady garden in the woods, so not conducive to mum borders. There is one small area on a high point in the garden that is perhaps half sunny, and I do have a patch of mums there; it's not very large, and the plants get a little floppy due to lack of full sun... it's more of a mum throw rug, rather than a tapestry, but still awfully nice on late fall days when the afternoon sun lights it up, and every bee in the woods is buzzing around in it. 
// posted by IBOY @ 7:10 AM 
