Between the first raised vegetable bed and the concrete pad we park the trash bin on is a little strip of garden that has been taken over by dill. Occassionally, a larkspur, four o'clock or bachelor button will grow there. Various weeds are pulled from the space; but mostly, it is filled with dill. I grow dill for the swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. And, it smells nice.
Out past the concrete pad we park the trash bin on is a patch of mint. It is contained by the concrete pad, and the alley road mostly. I have to do a little digging to keep it from creeping to far the other directions. With the mint, we also have bachelor buttons and a very nice stand of daisies. Daisies are doing great this year at Garden on Sherlock Street. I usually mow the mint once during the summer to keep it from getting too tall and bushy. It makes my mower (and the garage) smell nice for weeks.
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What a great idea - to surround your trash containers with such wonderful scents!
ReplyDeleteYou made a "trashy" place look very cheery. I love daisies. They look pretty with the blue larkspur.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine having to mow mint. I have not been able to grow it. Last year, when I was sowing my mint seeds, my sister-in-law said to me:"Friends don't let friends grow mint". I am nursing a tiny mint sprig right now in hopes that some day I will have to mow my mint.
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ReplyDelete~Amy
Thanks. I'll use any space I can to add flowers.
~David in Kansas
Don't fret over the mint too much. I don't think it likes to be messed with much. You get that plant going and you'll have mint to mow!
~GonSS
Oh, wow! That is a wonderful idea to place scents by the trash.
ReplyDeleteI'm with David though. My m-i-l gave me a pot of mint and said "can't kill it", well I felt so bad when the poor thing withered out. It figured it would be me to be able not to grow it.