Garden season is coming fast. I was traveling for work through most of March, April, and May last year, so I'm looking forward to being home to plant this spring. I'm getting ready to build a raised bed flower garden. My wife is planning a collection of native plants from High Country Gardens. For a frame I will use 2x6 untreated lumber. My oldest raised vegetable garden is three years old and doing fine so I'm not concerned with rot. The plot will probably be six feet square, and eleven inches high (two boards). I am going to fit the corners together with good joinery, rather than just some exterior screws like I used on my other raised beds. I may use dovetails, 4x4 corner posts, or both. Where the long edges of the two layers of 2x6 meet I'm thinking about ripping a groove, and setting a strip of wood in it to hold them together. The hardest part of that will be cleaning off the stuff that has accumulated on the table saw since my last project. I may put pavers around the outside to minimize trimming, I'm not sure.