Gertrude's Flower Garden Weekly Diary

6/11/99 - The "Weekly Diary" publisher (me) has budgeted a scanner for the editor (me) to use. I am going to try to include a garden picture with each diary entry, beginning with the picture below of Gertrude's Garden this spring when the azaleas and tulips were blooming.

This week, I am going to describe some of the beds that I have planted with annuals this spring--later, when the flowers are in full bloom, I will try to include a picture of each of these beds.

We have three small circular beds, each about eight feet in diameter. Each one has been planted with spring bulbs, and is later palnted with annuals.

One of these small circular beds is located in the bend in our walk in front of our house. (The bend originally went around a large oak tree that we lost.) This bed is planted with Siberian Squill [Scilla siberica (blue)], and was a lovely wheel of bright blue this spring. Now it is planted with a triple row of white Star zinnias (Z. augustifolia) around the outside and a grouping of pink Profusion zinnias in the center.

The second of these small circular beds is in the back garden. It has a small sundial in the center and its spring bulbs are Puschkinia libanotica or Striped Squill. Here the annuals that I have planted are again the Star zinnia but this time yellow/gold with the center of the bed filled with Blue Salvia (Victoria).

The third bed is behind our garage in a shaded area. Its spring bulbs are Glory of the Snow [Chionodoxa forbesii (blue)], and here I have planted my ever faithful impatiens in mixed colors.

This week I am still busy relocating "volunteers," including balsm and cleome. We haven't had rain for a while, so that the beds must also be watered--lawns are deeper rooted and can survive on their own for a while.

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