Garden Flower Pics!
10 years ago
I thought I'd share some photos of our front yard with you all. We had SO much rain this spring, and I think it's paid off in thriving perennials.
Our annuals are quite bright this year, too.
Here's one of our front path planters, which has gorgeous begonias that we found at Home Depot:
Our dog planter has gerbera daisies again this year:
We spruced up this walkway to the backyard about 2 years ago. It's inviting with a stone path, lost of hostas, azalea bushes, chrysanthemums and hydrangeas:
The clematis climbed up the mailbox in spectacular fashion this year:
Our large patch of black-eyed Susans are popping earlier than normal. We usually see them begin to peak around the 4th of July:
Finally, a couple of our second-floor window boxes. I'm so glad we splurged on these a few years back:
More flower, herbs and even an English garden later!
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Comments (20)You could incorporate the pond by adding some rocks with a bit of presence - groupings along the back curves. And not dinky rocks, something with some heft and shape but that won't overpower the size of the pond; and buried in a bit not to look plopped by some magical accident. Interplant the rocks with a few specimens that can handle a western exposure, but not sure what they would be in your zone. Dragon's Blood sedum is a low growing creeper, hens & chicks. An annual sweet potato vine could be trained into interesting cascades. All I know is when it comes to gardening/landscaping for the DIYer is that the heart knows what the heart wants. Most of us non professionals cut our teeth by trial and error; by pouring over gardening books before the advent of the internet; by skulking around local garden centers; by overplanting things that just weren't quite appropriate; by making mistakes and replacing failures until something actually worked; by realizing it's a plant and not "my baby" (as I so often see plants referred to on some of the forums) so it can be uprooted, discarded, replaced without trauma....See Moreflower garden pics
Comments (2)You should take a look at this site. Lots of beautiful photos from all over the world, both on the garden scale and of individual flowers and plants. Look up my page - SneIrish Sue Here is a link that might be useful: garden photos link...See MoreWhat are these flowers and plants in my new garden? *pic heavy*
Comments (6)I would say that no.8, though beautiful, is not an Ipomaea unfortunately but a pernicious perennial weed, Calystegia sepium. The absolutely worst weed I have in my garden. Follow the stems down and you will find long white roots which will run for miles and break if you try to pull them. Every piece will regrow. Here is a link that might be useful: Hedge bindweed...See MoreMy Vegetable Garden and a few pics of flowers - July 14
Comments (19)Annie asked me to post the following for her. Kathy Re: crackingtheconcrete: You are hilarious! Re: honalee: That tanker truck (or maybe water pipes) would be a good "green job" and infrastructure idea for the Stimulus! ;) Send it to the White House - maybe you'll make a million $$ and help all of us in the drought states! I've thought of that (seriously) many times. States share hay for livestock in other states. Why not pump the flood waters to the drought states? Just sayin'.... Re:sprout_wi: I bought them at Atwood's Farm and garden center. They were marked 50% off, They were all wilted and looked pathetic, but worth a try. I lost two plants. The other 4 are doing great. If you cannot find them, I can send you seeds this fall. Remind me via email with your mailing addie in September and I'll do it! Tried to post a new topic earlier with pics showing the parts of my yard where I hadn't watered in contrast to where I have so you all could see. My darned puter locked up and I don't know what all, but it I am so frustrated. Will try again later I guess. Here is one pic I uploaded to TinyPics and saved to my documents folder: The green in the photo is way greener than it actually is in reality. So far, the established trees and native trees are hanging in there, but I don't know how. Notice the Bermuda grass in the driveway looks dead. That's how it would look in the back yard too had I not watered. I just couldn't do it all - poor things. I'll try to post the others later. Too frustrated right now. Thanks everyone for your comments. It makes me feel that what I do isn't for nothing to know it is appreciated by someone besides me...and I feel the love. (Hugs) ~Annie...See More
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