Just a few photos of my gardens in the spring!
I planted the garden in my neighbor's yard that borders our yard. It used to be filled with poison ivy, sticker bushes, and leaves. He didn't have any plans for it and told me to do whatever I wanted with it!.
Since this area is what we see, when we look out our living room window, I wanted something pretty to look at! There isn't much blooming right now but there will be soon! Earlier there were tulips and alliums blooming. This bed contains grasses, 2 white butterfly bushes, Russian sage, Coral bells, Black eyed Susan's, Shasta daisies, Lolly pop lilies, snow in summer, coreopsis, bachelor's button and cosmos. I layed two dry river beds in the areas that the rain washes through. Our ground has a surplus of rocks ~ I love to recycle!
This area is the my favorite place to hang out! I have two water features, potted plants, solar lights, and some garden decor to enhance this secluded space. It is especially cozy when the Crape Myrtles are full and in bloom! My boyfriends business is doing stamped and colored concrete ~ this was the first one he ever did ~ I love it! This garden stays pretty damp because it's at the base of a slope. In the spring, I have candelabra primrose, daffodils, and tulips blooming. I also have hostas, phlox, liatris, candy tuft, grasses, hydrangea, turtlehead, lady's mantle, impatiens, clematis, Solomon's seal, violets, avens cooky geraniums, coreopsis, hollyhocks, lily of the valley, sedums, etc... planted here.
Just a view of the slope down to the house.
A close up photo of one of my fountains. I also have hummingbird feeders and bird baths in this area, so that I can enjoy them while relaxing here! The open area in the deck was originally going to have some type of design worked into it, but my boyfriend never got around to finishing it ...so... I decided it would be the perfect place to put the decorative feeder my best friend gave me, and a hummingbird feeder. It also is a great place to hang a hanging basket of flowers!
This clematis is really doing well this year!
This was my first flowerbed that I started, other than the ones against the house. It's a mix match of drought tolerant plants. It is on quite a slope and the soil is pretty rooty under the mulch. I contains creeping Jenny (ha ha), several different kinds of columbine, lilies, sedum, shasta daisy, astilbe, ferns, candy tuft, hardy cyclamen, loosestrife, yarrow, yellow archangel, spotted dead nettle, bloody cranesbill, hydrangea, balloon flower, bleeding heart, coral bells, dianthis, lavender, Solomon's seal, hostas, etc...
This area is for the birds ~ literally! I have most of my wild bird feeders here and the birds (squirrels and chipmunks too) love it. I have quite a variety of birds that visit: blue jays, cardinals, tufted titmouse, house wrens, golden finches, purple finches, house finches, 3 types of woodpeckers, etc... that visit regularly. I feed them black-oil sunflower seeds and nyjer seeds only. (sorry if I have misspelled any of this names - I'm too tired to look them up right now :) The plants in this area were recycled from a friend's neighbor. I have tiger lilies, hostas, and recently planted ajuga ground cover - which I hope really spreads fast to hide all the sunflower seed shells!
Have stumps? Decorate them!
This area is at the corner of our yard. It contains mostly hostas and different varieties of day lilies, pansies, liatris, asters, bachelors, buttons, shasta daisies, etc...
This is the other side of the deck and our second stamped concrete area. I have a little corner bed with more shasta daisies, lilies, bachelors buttons, hollyhock, clematis, lavender, sea thrift, alliums, Nora Barlow columbine, butterfly weed, mums, and a special English boxwood that my friend/patient gave me!
The raised beds are for herbs to attract butterflies ~ and I might use them for cooking ~ might!!!
This is my largest garden with too many plants to name! I placed rocks around it recently because the heavy rains that we've been having, keep washing out my mulch. There is always something in bloom in this garden and is home to one of my bluebird boxes. I have meal worms, raisin soaked in water, and oranges out for the bluebirds. I also have shallow bird/butterfly baths scattered around in this garden, as well has many nectarine plants. This is my monarch waystation~ common milkweed is planted just outside the flowerbed and many butterfly weed plants are planted inside the garden.
This is my purple butterfly bush. There is evening primrose and Clara daisies planted around it. A few larkspur seeds made there way into it too (the tall plants on the left). The bush has a lot of growing to do before it will bloom. I had cut it back pretty far in the fall but it's bouncing back well!
Corner of the front porch flowerbed. This contains lots of hostas, yarrow, delphinium, coreopsis, hyssop, shasta daisies, dianthis, hydrangea, gaura, violets, anemone, phlox, jolly bee geranium, a sparse lilac bush on the corner and a Josie lilac at one end, alliums, butterfly weed, turtlehead, etc... in the background to the right, is my raised veggie garden and tomato plants.
This is the front of the house which seems to get the least attention from me. The area to the left in the photo, I have started collecting different varieties of columbine. There are azaleas, a japonica shrub, hostas, bee balm, gladiolas, impatiens, an Alberta spruce, and two - tricolored hibiscus shrubs in this area.
This is one of the flowerbeds at the end of our driveway. It's too far away to water, so I have to plant drought tolerant plants here. It contains astilbes, yarrow, Shasta daisies, hostas, catmint, Virginia bluebells, anemone, iris', etc...
If you wonder why I use many of the plants over and over and over.... such as the shasta daisies, hostas, yarrow, astilbe, etc... I started with just a few of the original plants and keep dividing them each year! I must have a hundred or more shasta daisy plants, all from 2 original plants 8 years ago!
Hope you enjoyed the tour of my gardens ~
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