Yesterday I helped some members of the Magnolia Garden Club in Elba prepare and plant a flower garden in one of the old flower beds left on the site after the old school was demolished in 2006 to make way for the new playground. They chose the smaller flower bed in the background, nearest the playground.
First the flower bed had to be cleaned out and debris and weeds and grass removed from inside the planted to a depth of about 20 inches. After this was completed by volunteers, a load of good topsoil was donated and delivered to the site on March 3, 2008.
First the flower bed had to be cleaned out and debris and weeds and grass removed from inside the planted to a depth of about 20 inches. After this was completed by volunteers, a load of good topsoil was donated and delivered to the site on March 3, 2008.
Several garden club members met at the site on 
Friday, March 7 to begin spreading the topsoil and leveling it inside the planter. Then a white Natchez crepe myrtle tree was planted in the center of the flower bed. As a certified Master Gardener, I was the advisor to the group and furnished the tree that I had propagated in the summer of 2006. I also furnished some yellow coreopsis plants to put in the center of the flowerbed underneath the tree. They will plant lantana shrubs in the outer part of the circle and let them casdade over the brick on the outside. Below is a photo of the new playground and the 36 trees planted.
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