Violas Violas

 Well the weather cooperated with us today the rain let up and we were able to install our winter bedding scheme.  We were working in the walled garden you can just see the hedge and the walls in the background of the pictures.  The theme is black and white but we got blue violas instead but we went ahead anyway with our millions of blue and white violas.  There are phormiums as well in the beds and there will be more stems added to the beds to add more vertical intrest as well as some color contrast.  So you can see through the picture progression we started out the day with empty beds and you can see what we ended up with at the end of today.  They are not done but all the plants are in place.  The first step was to create the edge for all the beds then lay a border of plants to that line and then the rest of the plants could be filled in inside.  We used our trowl to measure plant distances it was very important so all of the beds looked uniform.  It took most of the day to place all of the plants and after lunch we started to plant the violas.  So tomorrow we will pick up planting the rest and hopefully we will finish tomorrow!  I have been asked numerous times since I have been here where I am from and I respond from the states and then they ask where in the states I respond Wisconsin and they then ask is that near Canada because you have a bit of a Canadian accent.  This has happened to me several times and by now I just laugh no I'm not from Canada and the funny thing is we Wisconsinites often make fun of the Canadians for their accent.  How funny.  Hope everything is well where you are and look for something later in the week.  Dani