Bed One 2018

Bed 1 is one of the largest beds on The Acres.  It's the one everyone who drives by on County Road 25 can see.  Ir is also one of the first beds I built on The Acres and has since been doubled in size.  As you can tell by all the redoing of beds that takes place, I have not yet perfected their construction.  I plan to redo half of this bed before Winter really sets in.  And I will try something new to try to keep it up longer than usual.  Sigh.  Ah, well.  I will be building beds until I die I imagine.  God grant that I die here on The Acres.
Because of its size, Bed 1 has a variety of beauties.  Early on it's crocus, grape hyacinth, daffodils, tulips, allium.  The iris come in May--this year eighteen different iris bloomed, not counting two dwarf iris that bloom the earliest and sometimes re-bloom in November.  Wild geranium, beardtongue, hardy orchid also join in in May.  June begins with two solos--flowers that are only in this bed--Western Indian Physic and white Stokes Aster.  The rest of June brings a host of lilies--Asian and day--inside and outside the bed.  Hummingbird mint (another solo), wild petunia, butterfly weed come in July, and August adds phlox and crocosmia and cosmos and morning glories.  Several gladiolas are always added for late fall color.  A gorgeous bed from March to frost.