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- last yearlast modified: last yearprairiemoon2 z6b MA thanked deanna in ME Barely zone 6a, more like 5b
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Comments (78)PM2, sorry, it took a few days but I finally got some photos of my agastache! The only thing is you and everyone else must promise to ignore the weedy paths and all the other overgrown stuff (not to mention my pathetic little tomato plants!) If you must look at the veggies, check out the squash plant behind this clump of agastache. This (and I think all of the clumps pictured) are growing in the holes of the cinderblock walls. You can see its all over this garden! I've let it go for one reason because these beds now get a lot more shade than when I built them, especially at the far end. The beds need to be revamped and I need to rethink whether I even need them or not. I could use them to grow some more shade tolerant perennials, but don't think that would work as this is really more about function. So I may just make them smaller. IDK... There is an oak tree that is really starting to shade this garden that the electric company has been saying for fifteen years that they want to take down because it's growing into the wires. I keep telling them PLEASE do, and they haven't. If they do I'll have my veggie garden back! :) Dee...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - July 2022
Comments (10)Well, one lone brave deer has pretty much eaten my photo ops. Some nights I hear him right outside my bedroom window on the patio, munching away. I turn on all the lights, and he doesn’t care. I have to get my old body out the front door before he feels the need to leave, and he shoots right up the driveway. So much for 2022. Today I had an exciting discovery—23 large monarch caterpillars on one single swamp milkweed. Then three monarchs were flying around gathering nectar. Either it’s been a sparse monarch year or I’ve just not crossed paths with them in the garden, but today was a joy. I do have four things for pictures that the deer has not eaten. He seems to be very choosy about hostas, which confuses me. But, he is consistenly fond of all daylilies, The area above used to be boring standard wintercreeper. The deer actually helped me out with that area several years ago. He ate the wintercreeper in mid-winter so much that in spring I could actually find the main trunk, cut that sucker out, and remove all wintercreeper. Behind the hostas is a wisteria, but it has not bloomed. Got it from a neighbor. Two daylily flowers that amazingly survived Sir Deer. Glamour Girl or Coral ?Flame? phlox just starting to come in. ’Hercules’ phlox is also here but is barely holding on in both areas of the garden where planted. Lavender is nearing the end of its show....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - August 2023
Comments (13)Deanna, The Berms. The last two winters I have been focused on figuring out more ways to address drought in the garden. My full sun bed in the front of the house, slopes away from the house , of course, as everyone’s does. So the rain runs off into the street to some extent. I already capture the rain coming down from the downspout into the rain barrel, but I thought, maybe if I built a Berm along the low street side of the bed, it would keep the rain on the property and keep that bed moist. It has really been successful in that regard. Of course, it’s not a great year to judge it because we have had so much rain. Next time we have a drought will be more instructive. Aside from that purpose, I am seeing the added benefit of building up the soil. I chose the location by where it would capture the most water and fit in with the design of the bed. It allowed me to still grow the plants that don’t like wet feet on the other side of the Berm, at the top of my steepest slope, if I want to - like Salvias. All the plants directly behind the berm really benefited this year. Not only water, but fertility from the Berm breaking down. The volunteer squash was such a delightful surprise. The foliage is so attractive and the plants have remained healthy all season. It has just taken off all along the top of the berm, and I’ve had to “arrange” it around the Sedum AJs and Grasses. It climbed into a Sedum and deposited another squash, which was a fun surprise this week. I had a half dozen seedlings and I thinned out to two of the strongest. That squash has grown 100% better out front in full sun on that berm than it ever did in the back where I get 5hrs tops and tree roots to contend with. And I don’t think it looks out of place with the rest of the perennials and shrubs. I want to do it again next year. I also had volunteer borage come up. I discovered a few years ago that Cardinals have some kind of interest in the Borage plant, that I still don’t know what it is, but I grow that for them now. I think I can grow the squash and borage together in the Berm next year. But there are so many possibilities for what you can grow there. And you could grow nothing in it too. I wouldn’t plant perennials or shrubs in it, because it does break down and needs to keep being replenished. I have grown them right up next to it though. To build it - well, depends on whether you compost or not. I have two passive compost bins that I bought from the town years ago when they were trying to encourage people to compost. I fill them up with any kind of plant material - deadheaded hibiscus blooms at the moment, weeds that are not going to seed, grass clippings, leaves. Then we collect kitchen scraps - egg shells, coffee grinds, banana peels, vegetables, orange rinds, paper towels sometimes, tea bags…etc. Nothing diseased. I leave the tops off the containers to allow the rain to keep it moist and if it doesn’t rain I have to water it. That’s all I do until it’s full. In the fall, last year and this year, we have a pile of branches from pruning in the spring that I haven’t used yet. We have grass clippings. By the time I am building the berms, I’ll probably have brown leaves. I will take it all….the branches on the bottom, and then layered on top the contents of the compost bins, the leaves, the grass clippings. I make them a couple of feet wide and a couple of feet high. Maybe 18”? Depends, I don’t want to shade the plants behind them. I shape them like a long wide sausage…lol. I do curl the end sides to keep the rain from running around the side of them. Then I top them off with a good thick layer of bark mulch. I’m not sure I would always do this if it was in an out of the way area, but right in front of the house along my best bed, I wanted it mulched. This year, I plan to replenish by pulling back the bark mulch and adding to it then adding another thick layer of bark mulch again. I want to add more branches this year to slow down the break down. If I could get away with not having to replenish it every season, that would work out best. I’m also adding new locations where I plan to grow vegetables next year, for the fertility. I found the beautiful soil in July and I constructed the Berm last Fall. So, not that long really....See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens-A Photo Thread - May 2024
Comments (31)Good morning - Last day of May! That went by fast! Well, I'm sorry to say I didn't take one photo at Thyme2dig's Garden over the weekend. I don't have a smart phone, and I was going to take my camera and forgot it at home. And we had the dog with us that we were focused on keeping out of the beds and a short time schedule, so I didn't even think of a photo until I was home. lol I'll have to depend on Thyme2dig to take more photos and post. But simply saying her garden is beautiful just doesn't seem to be enough. She and her DH do an amazing job on that garden. Everything was pristine. So much to look at. Her newest border along the street is a great beginning and I can imagine how it will fill in with the coming years. A lot of color and texture and so many different plants. Not all of which were in bloom. I'm hoping for photos of the roses when they do start blooming. And she has an oak tree in the front that is limbed up high and a Climbing Hydrangea going all the way up to the lowest branch. I've always had a soft spot for Climbing Hydrangea. Then to top it all off, she has a fence in the back - where there is another Climbing Hydrangea all along the length of it. They were not in bloom either, so again, need a photo when it does! And the hydrangea has an entire bed of daylilies in many varieties all along it. BIG bed. I think she is planning an Open House in July when they are in bloom, which should be spectacular. I went to her last Open House and they removed some trees in the back since then and I can't get over what an improvement that made. SO much more sun and light. It had gotten a little claustrophobic and now it feels open. Other special plants...a Calycanthus that is as big as a multi-trunked tree with large blooms on it. A very large Kalmia framing one side of a patio that was covered in buds ready to pop. So many Vuburnums in full bloom. And one thing that you can't rely on getting a photo of are the birds! SO many beautiful birds. I saw a Gold finch while we were there and I could hear a lot of bird calls, some of which I didn't recognize. And of course, there is the cat and her kittens that live in a wall in the garden and interact with the family. If she has an Open House in July, it is well worth the trip!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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