Contemplating my garden - Rose pics on Page 6

[vfem]

See if I was driving my truck I would have helped you double that haul!

Can't wait to see everything in your are planning. I also wanted to see updated photos of the new front garden as I'm sure it has gone more green now!?

 

[Catalina]

sticky pot syndrome

I have that problem too! Can't wait to see what your garden looks like with all of those planted!

 

[Reinbeau]

It was supposed to rain today and it did, just a bit, but it stopped, so I ended up getting lots of weeding done, and then hubby came out to put dirt and manure into the one empty bed I had out there, so I was able to plant out my culinary herbs - the garden is finally starting to shape up for the season! Last season's herb bed had sprouted lots of calendulas and borage, so I moved a bunch of calendulas over to this season's bed (I'm tossing the borage, I've got so much you just wouldn't believe it, that and dill!) and planted them along the front edge, I love the way they look, and the flowers are edible, so they count as a culinary herb!

I've got more to get in, more weeds to pull, mulch to put onto paths (I'm trying to go to permanent beds with permanent paths between), corn and squash to plant but it's finally looking good! We still don't have a fence, and had a visit today from a four legged young lady, a female deer (I shooed her away!), so that's high on the to-do list right now! Between deer and the chickens, I'll be lucky to have a harvest at all out there!

I'll take pictures tomorrow.

 

[Purple Strawberry]

I can't wait to see the pictures :rainbow-sun

I bet the front is looking nice!!

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Oh, wow!
Ann, what a fabulous design for both yards. Functional, yet pleasing to the eye. Your pea gravel paths and raised beds are exactly what I had in mind for my garden after this season. I too am realizing that like raised beds better than gardening in the ground (it has a lot to do with a certain husband who trampels around in my garden).
Can't wait to see everything in the next update. I am going to subscribe to this thread.

 

[vfem]

So where are the photos already!??!

 

[karanleaf]

Just found this thread ... Read all of it Ann that is amassing what you have done I love the Herb bed arraingment in the front yard Great Job And the Back wow, so nice what you can do with a blank canvas I can't wait to see the transformation to both back and front yard Gardens :coolsun That was loads of work :tools But as a true gardener I am sure you were tired but a Good tired :weight Again I love what you have done

:happy_flower Karan

 

[barefoot okie]

I am so Jealous.. your gardens look so nice... cant wait to see more pictures... :bee

 

[Reinbeau]

Ok, finally the pictures. Hang on, there's quite a few! I am not a good photographer, so bear with me.

First, two shots of the new herb garden from different angles. First from the house towards the street. There are still lots of weeds (mainly dill and borage and yes, they are weeds out there) in the way, but I'm working on them. Some will stay, just for this season, I love borage and so do the bees, but you can have too much, and I do! The pansies you see in the front are going, they're only there because I love pansies and I threw them in there before there was anything else in the garden. I've planted grass in the foreground, that's the mulch you see, it's coming up, but slowly.

Towards the street is my baptisia, started from seeds years ago I got from my grandmother's house. I have lots of memory plants in my garden.

Here is the herb garden looking across the front yard. I think it shows the symetry I'm trying to maintain as I put in the plants. It's hard to control myself! I can't do everything I want to do right away, but slowly it will become more formal:

I really should have taken a more closeup shot, I'll do that when it's tidier

Next are a series of shots showing the border you see in that second picture. The iris are the stars right now, I'll post pics of them after this series.

That last photo has a good shot of one of my tree peonies. This one is particularly floriferous, it blooms over a long period, and the blossoms are gorgeous!

Now the iris. First is the blue one, Victoria Falls:

Next is another memory plant, I don't know the name, but it came from the garden of my mother's next door neighbor, Mrs. Merit; she had a lovely garden and her iris were stunning. She also gave me my coral bells, they're the old-fashioned ones and the hummingbirds just love them!

This deep maroon one is named Spartan, I've had it as long as I've hat Victoria Falls, but it hasn't multiplied as much as the blue one has:

I've also got the Orris Root Iris in the garden but it's already gone past, no pictures. It's a nice soft blue, almost white, I grow it for it's herbal properties.

Next to the back yard, the veggie garden, it hasn't changed much, this is an overall shot:

I'm still thinking on how I'm going to handle fencing and the large in-the-ground part of the garden.

Here is a shot of the lettuce bed, with a line of peas running down the middle of it - the peas are almost ready, and the lettuce is delicious! In the bed beyond it are garlic and shallots:

Last (I hope you aren't all falling asleep by now!) here are two rhodies I planted years and years ago, I think more than twenty. I got them as cuttings from the Van Veen nursery when I was a member of the Rhodie society. The big purple one is Olin O. Dobbs, it's a rangey thing, but absolutely stunning when it's in bloom:

Next to it, not the best combination but I've never moved it, is Vulcan, a true red:

Both of these plants are in a tangle that used to be a nicely defined woodland wildflower garden, the foxgloves have taken over, and the New England Asters. I've got some major weeding to do in that garden!

Now I'm toddling off to bed, I was up too late last night and too late now again tonight - I'm exhausted, but not finished yet!

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

I'm stunned. I think your yard is gorgeous! It has everything I want for myself. Formal, informal, a woodland garden, a veggie garden... and chickens and bees, too, right?

LOVE IT.

Edited for spelling. It's late.