You can use any plain board from the hardware store and stain or paint it, or you can even find a nice length of molding for a little bit of a fancier look.
Borrow from a friend, or another one of your own flower gardens.. Don’t forget about the magic of splitting your perennials!Some plants actually need to be dug up and split every few years to keep them really healthy.
If a friend has a plant you like, it can be dug up in the early Fall, or the early Spring and half of it can be replanted in your garden.A lot of flowering shrubs can be grown either from little shoots that they put out around their base, or from clippings of their branches.I have quite a few perennials around the property that I hope to dig up this Fall and maybe add in to some of the bare spots.. That little purple-ish heuchera as well as some of the hostas all came from other gardens on the property..
So here’s how progress is looking on our little perennial garden experiment so far:.We cleared away some of the excess weeds and old, dead bits from last year, set out all the plants where we wanted them, and dug in!
It was a lot of work, but really only took a few hours..
There are definitely still quite a few bare spots and the garden isn’t nearly as full as our inspiration garden, but we’re well on our way to having a respectable little slice of heaven here.For now, we just added some thicker trim and I painted the door in black chalkboard paint to minimize how much you notice the crookedness of the door.
It really worked!Kennedy provided the artwork.
The side of the room where the crib sits is still a little sparse, but I’m happy about that.It gives me the chance to keep adding to the room if I think of something else I really want or need in here.