flower bed

i have a flower bed in front of my house, right under the front windows. the bed had black plastic and bark filling it
this year, it was full of weeds, and a VERY nasty bush.
the bush was there when we moved in. it didn't ever have flowers, and even after trimming it, it still grew shoots that were 4 feet tall. what made this bush so nasty was that it had thorns that were about an inch long.
at some point this spring, i discovered, amidst all the weeds, that i had tiger lilies in that bed. but as the weeds were taller than flowers, you couldn't see them.
around the first part of august, i ripped out all the weeds. or what i could get to.

this morning, after i got elizabeth off to school, i set to work on that flower bed. i would really like to plant some flowers in it. since that's hard to do with plastic in the bed, i took it out and the bark. i also removed the bush.

 

i am quite happy with the results!