How does your garden grow this long weekend?
Mine is chaotic and colorful, just how I like it. Here's a little tour of highlights. How is your garden looking? (Pictures, please!)
These are right by my front door...
The main sunny border is along the front of my property...
Same garden, opposite angle...
Looking back toward the front of the house...
Close up of that clematis on the lamp post...
And a shot of a peony to show just how close to the road I planted because it used to be the only sunny spot before we took down some trees...
The side yard gets morning sun, and is full of hydrangeas that aren't doing too much yet, but these iris and baptisia like it there too...
And until the hydrangeas get moving, these two clematis share a much too small trellis...
The woodland garden is less colorful now that bulbs are done, but still pretty (if you excuse the weeds - I have actually planted so much now it takes multiple days to get all the weeds, eek!)
And the liquid fence is really keeping my hostas safe!
Ok. Houzz says that's enough pictures for me. Looking forward to seeing yours!
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mazerolm_3a
4 years agoBeautiful pictures, Jenn! My tulips are very close to blooming. I probably go out and look at them 5 times a day! :). Here are some pics of my beds/flowers:
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4 years agockerr007
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoFantastic pictures everyone, thank you for sharing. I also like seeing the varying bloom progressions in different zones. Here are a few of mine from a beautiful day yesterday spent planting, trimming, and cleaning up (it never ends). First, two wide views of the front and back beds:
Next, the Veronica ground cover (maybe ‘Georgia Blue’?) with the “towering” interrupted fern in the background:
Finally, the newly planted Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum’ in the background with a just-moved dogwood shrub (‘Ivory Halo’ I think) and a ‘Renkaku’ tree peony in the foreground:
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4 years agoAfter 6 weeks travelling, we returned to this. We assume there was a lot of rain here in the PNW as the garden is lush as are the weeds. It was an experiment to leave in spring and though the trip was lovely, I will only travel in winter from now on. I didn’t like coming home to my browning tulips and faded rhododendron blooms.....
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4 years agoCotinus Grace and Magic Carpet Spirea
Peony Scarlet O’Hara
Unknown Peony and Baptisia lurking in the background
Rosa rugosa Fru Dagmar Hastrup
Abelia mosanensis
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4 years agockerr007
4 years agoBeautiful pictures, cercis and harold. You may have missed some early blooms cercis, but you have plenty more going on now and still many more to come this year I’m sure. I forgot to post one picture from this weekend that I find fascinating, the troll hair-like tops of the geum triflorum or prairie smoke:
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