Used repurposed paving bricks and concrete pavers to create a tiered garden featuring cardinal flower and bee balm (back row), anise hyssop, lavender and sage (middle row) and mint, blanket flower and thyme (bottom row)

Installed edge and covered expanded border with cardboard sheet mulch and mushroom compost

Used pre-existing brick rotated and salvaged brick rotated vertically to create higher border with improved soil retention and visibility

Installed edge along pre-existing border planting

Installed edge along wall, applied black shredded bark mulch and planted two creeping junipers, two bearberries, two firecracker sedum, two iceplants, 4 phlox and 4 dianthus

aerated soil, added mushroom compost, seeded, applied straw mulch, watered…and waited until Spring!

Extended initial attempt at a bed embedded in a lawn by creating a berm from excavated turf and filling with homeowner supplied mulch. Then, planted using homeowner supplied plants