Spring Nandina do over

Struggles with a new laptop have made blogging too much work. If I didn't have something to keep for the future, I think I would just post pictures like a photo album and not fight with it.

This old bed has been a mess for many years.  Just living with it has become a constant fight with leaves and dirt.  Thus, time for a change.

The brick is the fireplace to the right of the patio.  There is a little corner between brick and door that collects whirlwinds of dead leaves and detritus that gets dragged into the house on shoes or vacuum when the storm door is opened.

this is the largest clump of roots

Hubby did pitch in and chop the roots loose for me as I was on my hands and knees scraping dirt from roots, clipping same and ending up with very sore hands.

At the end of a productive, chilly, windy day.

A lot of clean up on the other side of the flag stone path, but not thinking
 about that right now.

The bed is not that large and plan to lay under- layment and mulch and then place pots.
It will be much easier to deal with pots and not the messy root/sprouts from nandinas that were a constant battle to control.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.Apr 23, 2014

My newest addition/sans the thingie on the top/is a metal bird bath from a local flea market.

It needs cleaning and repainting and, oh yeah, filling holes in the bottom with silicone.  Didn't notice until I got home.