I like your new bed. It looks great in front of the stone wall. Your pond is lovely and it all looks so peaceful. It seems like quite a few people are using stock tanks for ponds, and they all look great!

Keep posting pictures, they're inspiring and wonderful to look at. Like little mini vacations.

FlowerLady

Very nice Rita. Sometimes we have to use trial and error to see what works best. This looks great. Are you going to keep this bed in annuals or are you going to put in perennials evenually?

Sierra

Rita, I think you are on to something regarding annuals. They are great for guaranteed color when you need it.

I love that pond and the surrounding area. It looks very cool.

Lilies will be great in that front area and the siberians will have nice foliage until frost. Wish you were close to me. I just dug up a clump of white Siberians as big as a bushel basket....they were in the way of planting pole beans on the hoop frame. They are reclining in a shady area for a while.

When I see rock like that, I get all a twitter! Nice job.

Sigh, I have been looking at it and still need to fix the edge off to the left. I have that little extra loop there with one fern and the other inside of the row of pavers another fern. The little loop makes no sense, the entire edge should go around them both. Or I should just take the loop out. Then I also have to figgure out just what I will do on the right edge were it drops off on to a steep grass covered bank that you really can't see in the picture.

Been giving some thought to what I will plant permantly in there. The must haves for that garden bed are Siberian Iris, oriental and asiatic lilies as one blooms after the other. Trumpet lilies tall in the very back for blooms after the oriental lilies. And I have decided that I really want to keep a narrow lane of marigolds all along the front edge of the pavers for season long color.

Also really want to do spring flowering bulbs there like crocus, daffs and maybe tulips. A problem as they need to be planted in the fall and I will not be putting my plants in until the spring.

Other things I think about adding but not sure which, if any, I will put there are daylilies, gladiolas, Dahlias, Dutch iris, spuria iris or catmint.

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I added a hanging basket.

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It looks nice with the Cosmos in bloom now.

Rita, What is the tree in the container???? The bed looks great with the great pavers..........good work.
Jill

I have been posting these pictures and have been amazed that no one commented on the fact that I have a potted tree sunk into the ground.

Its an Illinois Everbearing Mulberry. It grows really BIG if put in the ground and I did not want it big. But the roots grew thru the hole in the pot, it tipped over and I cut the roots. Then I could not get the pot to stand upright any longer. So I sunk it inground.

Last year after I cut the roots all the leaves dropped so I prunned it way back. Thought it would be dead this spring but appareantly it's tough because it leafed out and is fruiting.