" we started doing a little garden restoration last week it. And Ruth Foster is our old friend who was the horticultural columnist at the Boston Globe for many years and she's designed this area that we're looking at here. It's kind of like a crescent shaped flower border. And last week we talked about putting in perennials today we're gonna talk about putting involves also restoring the grass that's been damaged by the construction also what she's chosen to plant the bank let's get started. OK so Jim's planting bulbs and Ruth last week you explained to us that. When you put perennial plants in not the bulbs but the kind of -- bushy flower things you always put the taller ones in the back of the border yes and the shorter ones up front."

" Absolutely we're doing the same thing that the bulbs we have little bulbs in the front medium ones. In the center these wonderful daffodils now let's talk about hi Jim what what what was he just digging in those little white those little white ones are Cella. And their beautiful blue little things that come up. Those are joining garlic yeah I don't actually your dollar and air how Williams okay sir interesting bulbs because these are deer resistant. This is this is the -- the sealer and that will be a short little short little blue thing that's perfectly lovely. Now what do you put up the what do you put down the point goes up with me. When the point here it goes up and it can turn it over the roots go down through the room is upside down it's not a good I didn't agonized bit not and I -- OK and so you always and you plant them approximately. Three times as deep as whatever the sizes okay but what about arranging them in the border we've we've put if you noticed we put the daffodils in bouquets what you don't want. If you don't want which ones are -- these big ones that I'm holding -- don't see -- these here you don't want to bunch of measles you know one here one there you plant them in bouquets so when they come up there. Four or five wonderful bulbs and then makes a statement OK we've done that and his CD Alley -- we've put with three they have things that looked like. In purple so I interrupted you but maybe I can use this thing ha -- just put it then. That's right you see it's really good and then you put in the bottle. You don't even have to turn it just stick it. Perfect and then you -- the -- right right it just doesn't need to be deeper. Well that one does but we were using that for a smaller when we're gonna we're gonna use a trowel for that one OK all right and down. Now what what do you order these from a catalog or something we not cease from wonderful bulb place called. Dutch gardens dot com. And they sent me a catalog -- like a child and candy store -- these are certainly touched these are Dutch bulbs. And you know I want you look at this you can get good quality big bulbs with the double motion get two flowers and you can buy bargain bulbs and it and you add a little flower. With a little thing and you get what you pay for -- And these are the bargain bulbs and this is what they sent -- and this is really worth -- at this will be daffodils so -- aides are hoping that they're all back daffodils yep and the deeper you plant them the less likely they are display. -- prime bulb like this a little shallow in the second gearing -- and having fun OK and then you've got. Chrysanthemum that you had brought along is that listen these are these are just for fall color. I don't put these in the garden usually because these are forced. And if you put the man next year they will bloom about mine bloom close to Thanksgiving. And you have to covered numbing after pinch them so it's easier to buy them they're not expensive it's usually to -- an annual then treat them like an annual. I don't even plant them because it's more work."

" So when this resolved when these are all planted then will you mulch over them tumultuous there -- just throw the mulch in over it all right. And we -- now Ruth the big question -- Have is when you've damaged a whole area of turf like this with construction equipment and we had all our beautiful red cedar dropped here and so that was here for a week or two before we constructed the deck. Everything is compacted. And the grass is killed and how do you deal with that."

" Well this adding. I I prefer something called a freedom lawn which is you Malek and you throw on grass seed twice a year you throw it on. In the early fall. And you throw it on in the melting snow. And then you just throw Don and you rake it in good. OK I've got two kinds of grassy the united look at this this has big seeds yeah and you look at this this has a lot more -- would rather. Though the fence you that's this -- grass seed and the bluegrass seed are the good grasses and they're small they take a long time to Germany. The big grass seed is rye grass OK and you already want perennial rye. There is an annual -- we call it builder special and you never want that and you always look at the bag and and you just scattered it on this compacted soil and I Jim you've got the rate. And then -- rake it and is that all you need to do you know you don't have to carry this or -- in May appear having a freedom lawn you don't get to -- Compulsive about hasn't green car just what is it that you mean by a freedom lawn a freedom lawn is along that you -- thank you for you overseen. Twice a year or once a year you may fertilize it in the fall. And you don't fuss if there are weeds and crab aggression just mow it high and you have a great deal of freedom did you know. That a good lawn is the highest maintenance plant you can have. I'm sure that's true think about it and the telltale horse so this is a lower maintenance approach to young bond. And then we will put the sprinkler chronic it will the rye grass won't come up in five days in the warm soil him and the bluegrass takes two weeks. And -- and rescue takes the fest 2000 changed the bluegrass goes in the sun -- and the annual and the perennial -- goes everywhere great."