Planting & Designing my New Front Garden Bed, Blue Arrow Juniper 💚🌿🖌// Suburban Oasis April 2021

Join me as I begin to fill in my new front garden bed extension with Blue Arrow Juniper, Black Lace Elderberry, Veronica, Ajuga, Coneflower, and May Night Salvia. This bed is starting to look like a garden!
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[@mairwaugus5203]

"Verticality" Love it!
Thanks Soleil 🌟🌞

[@Suburbanoasis]

I love funny words and making them up. 😃🌿🌼🌻

[@mairwaugus5203]

@@Suburbanoasis and remulchification😜

[@terratomlinson5269]

Love the thinking of going vertical and creating a scape that is interesting with color and variety year long!

[@Suburbanoasis]

I really want to see something outside my windows when it is bitter cold outside so it should help!! 🌲😁

[@longfootbuddy]

a breeze is good for blowing away a sneeze, a wind just makes plants bend

[@Suburbanoasis]

True! 😉🌿

[@Dessyluvs]

Good luck

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks, Dessy! 😁🌼🌱

[@betsyvanweerdhuizen5316]

Hi, I admire you for braving the cold and wind. I like how you used the rocks to edge your bed. It looks nice and provides distinction. My Black Lace Elderberry is 10 feet across and at least 15 feet tall. I know you can prune to keep them smaller but I have the space so I’ve not pruned mine. I’m in the PNW so our weather is a bit different too. Questions, did you put the bark directly on the grass? How do you maintain the edge between the lawn and the rocks? I struggle with that. Also, how do you like your dumping cart? Brand?

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks, Betsy! I do plan to keep my elderberry trimmed down and will prune after it flowers each year! I did just put the mulch directly over the grass because if I do it 6 inches thick most grass cannot grow through. If it does, I will pull it. Once a year at the beginning of the year I do use a spray between the rocks to ensure the grass does not creep in, but otherwise I dont have a problem with it as my husband uses the string trimmer to trim the grass to bare ground a few inches away from it. I will try to do a video that shows what I mean in the future!! 🌻🌿

[@Suburbanoasis]

And as for the cart, it is a gorilla brand cart my hubby got at home depot to help move the rocks around the yard. I like the du.ping features and the turn radius is good. The wheel base is a little wider than I like and I wishit was lighter because I am small, it is heavy duty and should last long! 🙂🌻

[@betsyvanweerdhuizen5316]

@@Suburbanoasis Thanks for responding. I’m wondering about the cart cause it looked heavy when you were dumping it. I broke my back last year and I’m healing but I have to be very careful. It looks easier than a 3 wheel wheelbarrow.

[@Suburbanoasis]

Ow! I hope it is getting better. They had some assembled at home depot so maybe you could try before you buy!🙃

[@wahidegypt54]

Nice video

[@Suburbanoasis]

Thanks for watching! 🙂🌸

[@wahidegypt54]

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[@noelle7714]

What zone are you in?

[@Suburbanoasis]

Hi Noelle! I am in zone 5b in Michigan. 🙂🌼

[@noelle7714]

@@Suburbanoasis thank you,I’m in Wi so the same zone.

[@barbarapruitt3978]

Did you put down cardboard

[@Suburbanoasis]

I didn't. I had my husband cut the grass low as possible and then weed whipped it even lower and because i used about 6 inches of mulch just before the winter it smothered the grass really well. 😃🪴🌾🍁