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Week-by-Week in the Garden: Design a Bed

Each week in this section you can find a new article about things to keep you busy in and near your garden -- in every season.

Week 4: Winter is the best time to make plans for your garden.

My garden is divided between a highly organized kitchen garden, which feeds us for about nine months of the year, and a couple of  higgeldy-piggeldy perennial flower beds that are screaming for attention.

The perennials in my garden followed me from previous homes - or belonged to friends who gave me a clump of this or a clump of that. Since the vegetable garden was my first priority, the perennials were planted at random wherever I found an empty spot. The result is - how shall I put it? - eclectic. Lots of color but a bit of a mess.

So with time on my hands, I took a photo of the offending bed and started making plans for a beautiful new flower bed. Everything will have to be dug up and rearranged but the results will be worth it.

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