Four Saturdays of work. A couple of pros would have the backs and arms to get it all done in one day. We took somewhat longer.
Part of it was inexperience. Having never dug up and recreated a planter, we had no idea how long it would take; we certainly didn’t know how much effort it would require.
Although the vision was very amorphous, we somehow knew what it would look like, though.
Now, instead of five boxwoods we have:
- two Loropetalum chinense,
- two Gardenia brighamii,
- three Rhaphiolepis indica,
- three Rhynchospermum jasminoides,
- a line of alternating Tradescantia pallida and Senecio cineraria,
- a small patch of Viola tricolor hortensis.
Who am I kidding? I can barely remember the plants’ common names, let alone the Latin.
It looks great!!! Now Papa and I need to get busy getting our pansies purchased and planted so we will have blooms all Winter and Spring! Oh, and when those purple plants you have there multiply, I want some!