Ta Da!!

It's finally finished. My first new garden in almost a decade. Also my opening salvo to eliminate my front lawn. The edges are ragged. I considered taking more time to straighten them out but I plan on expanding this garden in the fall and next spring so it doesn't really matter.

Because my front yard slopes downward towards the street, I've left turf around it to stabilize the soil until the plants are established and I get a retaining wall built along the driveway.

My homeless plants are homeless no more!

I situated The Fairy in the corner to provide continuity and soften the edges between the sidewalk and the driveway. I crossed my fingers when I transplanted it especially since it is budded. Around it, I planted the yarrow the I brought home from the Master Gardener veggie garden . in front of that is my lavender "collection". I noticed the both the Hidcote and the Munstead are budded. I'm hoping the buds survive the move. My other varieties are a Spanish lavender and the Lavender Lady that I acquired while planting my Master Gardener herb bed. In the fall when that bed has to be cleared out, my partner and I will split clumps of Grosso and Provence lavenders. I've left room across the top of this bed for them. The flattened plants are Bells of Ireland that I started in another bed. I've discovered that they hate, hate, hate to be transplanted and express their displeasure by going limp for at least 24 hours. They perk up after that.

The garden looks very sparse not just because the plants are small but more importantly because I have seeded it with annuals: cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, bachelor's buttons, asters, nasturtiums and, just for giggles, some of the wild lupines. Yes, I did walk on them after I planted them.

I'm hoping by August it will look as full as this border:

The pink flowers are Ipswich Pinks that I grew from seed years ago in another bed and then transplanted into this border before they bloomed. I didn't realize that some of the "clumps" were actually different plants. The results look like good candidates for the Weirdness Chronicles:
Here is my one cat fur failure: my pot seeded with catnip. No matter how much cat hair I put in it, something keeps digging in the pot and destroying the seedlings.
Sorry, I can't resist. This is the view from my computer:

Jealous, aren't you?