Sometimes the coolest part of gardening is unplanned, or unplanted as the case may be. When I first moved here, the lawn went all the way up to the road in front of the house. The last few feet was a nasty slope up that was difficult to mow. So two years ago we decided to kill the grass and turn the slope into a shrub border. We planted a couple of forsythias and spireas to provide a future shrubby hedge. What we didn't expect were the ladybells. There were a few of them around the base of the old cottonwood tree. We thought that was all there was. Ha, were we wrong. The whole border area between the lawn and the road is now covered in ladybells. They are quite the groundcover and so tall the young shrubs can't even be seen when the ladybells come up. They are lovely and a beautiful color of purplish blue. I love surprises like this!
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