I said I was done expanding the gardens this year… but apparently I wasn’t.

You see, several weeks back, when I expanded the strip garden at the side of the front yard…. I had to put all the sod I dug up somewhere. Normally we bag it and drop it off at the transfer station, but that’s a pain (sod is HEAVY!).

But… the front lawn had a large dent in it from when we had the dumpster on it when we were doing renos when we first moved in. It made mowing the front lawn a bit of a pain. So I decided to fill it with the sod (upside down so it would naturally compost), some extra topsoil I had. I raked in some grass seed and tried to keep it watered.

But trying to grow grass from seed in the high heat of summer… the weeds grew. The grass didn’t. But then last week I realized I had a pile of plants sitting out back, in need of a new home. So I got to work. I pulled the weeds and the small amount of grass that had managed to grow, and got planting.

So now I have a little island garden in the middle of the front yard. It’s filled with two roses (Garden Party and Tournament of Roses), a peony, a Coneflower, some Veronica, a red poppy, a delphinium, and a few annuals (Dahlia, Cosmos and African Daisies).

It doesn’t look like much now… but by the end of the summer, I think it’s going to be amazing. And I’m sure I’ll be expanding it next year!