Sounds like my kind of deal. I have started my fall dig up. I have a 30' arc about 2' across which is 3' from a kidney shaped bed. I have dug up all the block between them and will then close up each end and fill in the path between to make one large bed. Ordered 3.5CY of garden dirt to fill it in. Then as soon as I can will dig up all my dahlias and rototill in mulch, compost, etc. I have all sorts of ground cover and perennials in buckets that I dug out that need to go back. I am afraid all I will have time for is to dig trenches and get them in the dirt til next spring. Hate to do that, especially with the peonies, but I don't know for sure how I want to arrange the new bed. Plus I will need stepping stones into the center for tending it. My hope is that I can rim it is sedum and the blue-gray short ground cover that sends up blue spikes only about 3" (can't remember their name) on the east, south and west side. Then plant peonies throughout, with lilies between. Then mulch the heck out of it to try to keep the weeds down. Somehow grass got into the bed and it got completely away from me, hence the major dig out. I may put some breadseed poppies in their also to cover between the peony blooms and the dahlias and lilies. But I want to be able to deal with any weeds quickly.
I would love to move one of my gorgeous Little Lamb Hydrangeas to the north side of the new bed, about the middle, but the moose would have a field day eating it to the ground. Guess that would be okay as long as they left my yard in time for it to start growing. Hmmmm. May give that some thought
