Cleaning up!

 So this border garden, right outside of my veggie garden, was over-run with chickweed. http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/steme.htm

I keep forgetting to take a before picture.  I guess when the moment strikes, it just does and you go for it.  Soooo..after a few hours of first ripping out weeds and then delicately ripping out weeds (when I both saw and remembered that I had planted gladiolus an peonies in this area as well), I remembered that I still had craft paper and at that moment... would rather roll it out than lay newspaper, so I did.

Gladiolus

Black-Eyed Susan

Peony

Tulips

Then, I put a mixture of composted manure and potting soil where I wished to insert plants.  I put down daffodil bulbs that I never planted last year and a few pansies that I bought off of the "not quite right" rack at Lowe's.  I love that rack...it is where I bought my strawberry plant last year.  I have also purchased many a mum for ten cents each off the very same rack....love that rack.

Once all of that was through, I laid the mulch and watered and tried to keep the dogs from eating the mulch! Silly puppies, mulch is for plants.  F.y.i., that is why I buy the organic mulch, the colored mulch is toxic to dogs and my neighbor's daughter's dog died from eating it.  So...downside?  My dogs love it...upside?  It won't hurt them.

I plan on adding these to that area as well.  These are trailing verbena.