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<font color=darkcoral>Proud mommy, wife and WDW fa
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- Aug 17, 1999
Quick description: we have an appx. 8 x 15 rectangular flower bed right next to the side of our house which when you pull up in our driveway this is the first thing you see which right now is just some dirt and mulch (and a few weeds).
Since we are not yard or garden people by any means here's what I've decided (I think) to do with this area. My husband wants to put a little retaining wall around the area (2-3 stones high) and I wanted to fill in the area with white marble chips and then put in 3 or 4 large terra cotta (sp?) pots with flowers in them nestled into the marble chips. This way I won't have to worry about actually planting them in the soil and dealing with the actual ground (do I sound like a novice or what). And maybe depending on the season (i.e. Christmas) I could change out the flowers for pointsettias, fall colors for Autumn, etc. The garden place down the road from our house sells pretty big bags of marble chips for about $3.50 each, does this sound reasonable? I haven't checked the price at Lowes or Home Depot yet. Does this idea sound ok? Does anyone have any suggestions to add to this. Other than my dad said to lay down a plastic/polymer type sheet over the bed before we put down the chips so that weeds won't grow up through it, does anyone have any other tips?
Thanks
Since we are not yard or garden people by any means here's what I've decided (I think) to do with this area. My husband wants to put a little retaining wall around the area (2-3 stones high) and I wanted to fill in the area with white marble chips and then put in 3 or 4 large terra cotta (sp?) pots with flowers in them nestled into the marble chips. This way I won't have to worry about actually planting them in the soil and dealing with the actual ground (do I sound like a novice or what). And maybe depending on the season (i.e. Christmas) I could change out the flowers for pointsettias, fall colors for Autumn, etc. The garden place down the road from our house sells pretty big bags of marble chips for about $3.50 each, does this sound reasonable? I haven't checked the price at Lowes or Home Depot yet. Does this idea sound ok? Does anyone have any suggestions to add to this. Other than my dad said to lay down a plastic/polymer type sheet over the bed before we put down the chips so that weeds won't grow up through it, does anyone have any other tips?
Thanks