viimatar's OMG Annoyance garden

This started out as a flower bed for a few cornflowers, corncockles and nasturtiums. They didn’t grow too well, so by the next summer I was hoarding seeds from wherever I could. Thanks to folks at Klorofylli and Puutarha.net forums, I was able to get some seedlings and some seeds to plant last year. I also rummaged through all the last-minute sales in the nearby garden stores and was able to collect lots of semi-free specimen of roses, clematis and lonicera.

This year’s hit has been flower bulbs. I planted dozens of them last year and this spring was wonderful. At spring I planted some dahlias and gladioli, and now I’m thinking to expand my tulip and daffodil collection for next year. Weather’s starting to cool, so… :grin:

I’d like to change the soil and to find better ground-coverers, but next year’s going to see a large renovation project at these buildings and I have to dig up, replant and probably redesign everything in spring. All the better, though there’ll be less space and a compulsory 50-cm gravel bed beside the walls. I hate the lawn, but I haven’t been allowed to take it out completely. These are student accommodations, though small houses and family apartments (for the local University) and I’ll have to have it in a condition that the next tenant can have the normal, boring nothing-to-see-here surroundings when we move out in a couple of years (the sooner the better, though it only depends on whether I manage to get my Masters’ in 2011, finally).