May 26, 2007

• We're making a new flower bed in our front yard, around our maple tree. Last weekend, we chopped out all the grass, added many bags of topsoil, manure and humous, and lined it with bricks. Then we planted an outer ring of pink impatiens. My plan was to try to reproduce a bed I once had next to my old house in Mississippi, which had native fern in the back, then pink and green caladiums, then pink impatiens in the front. Well, tonight, we have it all planted. We found the caladiums in town, but we had to go out to the country to dig up wild fern.
  Here are photos from our fern safari on a friends' farm this afternoon:

  

  

  

  

  

  After we had dug a whole bucketful of
   little ferns, we stopped here and there
  for me to shoot a few more photos:

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  Oh! Yesterday I forgot to include photos of our newly planted little shade garden.
  Here it is...use your imaginations and see what it will look like in a month or so when the plants grow and the little ferns fill in between the flowers.....

  
  
  

  
  

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