Cottage Garden

This is a pretty view of what I am calling the cottage garden. Last summer, I got tired of the weeds growing in this small area. I dug it out and lay down plastic, sand and bricks and went to work planting. Himself and I moved plants from other parts of the yard (Japanese Iris, my Amber Wave coral belle and lilies). I planted some bienniels -- Hollyhocks and maybe the Bachelor Buttons -- are they bienniels? I bought a few new plants too. Oh, and we got a piece of my Mama's bleeding heart before her house was sold. That bleeding heart and the one I got from Wallyworld are both flourishing. Lovely, lovely plants. I love that plant. I think my Mama got her start of the bleeding heart from my sister Linda. Linda had the biggest, best Bleeding Heart I ever did see. Denny says that it is still there in his Red Wing garden and has been the mother of many more Bleeding Heart plants.

And today, even tho it is unseasonably cold and dreary and overcast and it looks like it is going to pour and there is not one bit of sunshine to lighten your heart, the garden is still pretty. And I reckon that is what a flower garden is for. To lighten a heart.