Good Bye Vines...Hello Butterflies!

I have been battling wild morning glories

like these in my garden for over 10 years.

You can't kill them!

and they take over everything you

plant and choke it out.  I have

tried everything!

So being desperate to kill it I opted for cardboard.

I can get lots of this from work for free.

and I estimate it'll take about 2 yrs. to biodegrade

in which time the vines will hopefully

be choked out and killed.

I had to leave this end uncovered as the perennials

are too closely spaced.

I should mention that I bought weed cloth

but it was too hard to go around all the

perennials so that is why I

switched to cardboard.  In the areas

where I used weed cloth... the stupid vines

are still coming up through the weed cloth.  So 

the cardboard seems to be a better choice.

Then I covered everything with mulch.

Since I couldn't plant in the ground with the cardboard

I opted for container planting.  I wanted to turn this

area into a Butterfly garden.  I am hoping it will attract

more butterflies and humming birds.

I salvaged old dresser drawers

and turned them into raised planters.

A few of the flowers are blooming

I want it to be bursting with blooms!

Plus I used pots I had.  I like to have all 

my pots be a terracotta color   To me it

unifies everything so that it doesn't look like

a menagerie.  When everything starts growing 

I think the pots will just meld away and the focus

will be on the flowers.

I prefer the wilder cottage garden look than formal

gardens with everything trimmed into

balls or squares.  If I had it my way I'd

live in a cabin or a cottage with a thatched roof.

I found this fencing picture on Pinterest

and I liked the quaint look of it.

We are slowly converting

my garden fence to look like it.

I just need to collect a mere

70 more sticks out of the woods!

Plus I'm going to add some grapevine to it.

I like how it looks and once

all the flowers start growing over it

 it will be just like I imagined it!

This arbor is new from last year.  I lined the top with

chicken wire so the little bird

house could sit securely on top.

I knew the birds would be back again and

the house is full of babies at the moment.

 I strung up some little pots of flowers 

to add some color until the trellis grows in.

I have not seen a butterfly but

they must have traveled already

North from Mexico because

I have found 5 Monarch eggs so far

on my milkweed!

Eager to see what will Bloom!