I walked around the yard this morning admiring new things and taking pictures. Zen moment.
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| Morning glory & these terrible marguerite daisies. These are coming up next to this little baby aspen tree. I've had this tree for, um, forever. It was a tiny little thing that I transplanted from my uncle's yard about 6 years ago. It's pathetic, but persistent. Marguerite daisies . . . I suddenly feel like I've hurt their feelings . . . it's just that I prefer a shasta much, much more. I'm a daisy snob. |
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| It's a classic coreopsis . . . these and blanket flowers pop up all over my yard, generally in places where I don't really want them, but they don't transplant all that well . . . . so I just let them be there. Happy little misfits . . . |
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| There's not much blooming in the yard this week, so it gives me time to appreciate the non-bloomers. I have this great patch of only mildly trompled ribbon grass that frames the upper patio in a pretty little sort-of semi-circle. Unfortunately, Moose loves to lay in it, so it sometimes looks like a deer bedded down, but it really is a nice color variety. |
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| Virginia Creeper on the right fence. I love this stuff. |
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| A giant autumn joy sedum and a baby daisy tucked into the back of 'the mother's day bed'. |
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| HAPPINESS IS ME!!!! It's a decent peony after all!! |
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| Lupine's gonna bloom soon . . . |
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| Day lilies are popping out here and there. These are my least favorite . . . kinda boring, but they get me excited for the red ones . . . |
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| One dead lavender. How sad. |
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| This bed is always forgotten. I tend to pile yard waste in it. I actually built the bricks around this cottonwood clump that suckered & came up on its own. I transplanted a tiny little shrub in there. Back surgery last year lent nothing but neglect to this. I cleaned it out and found such a variety of wonderful things: iris, raspberry, sedum, delphinium, some cast off asters, a decent winter creeper &, oh heck, what's the name of that stuff . . . dianthus. |
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| Mother's Day bed. I like this full look. I was so surprised a couple weeks ago to hear someone say they like their plants separated with visible mulch between each one. Really? I've never thought of myself as a cluttery person . . . but apparently my garden is a cluttered, overgrown mess. Guess what? I like it. Cottage garden, full of height and blooms and busy with textures . . . I like it. |
1 comment:
1. Are my daisies marguerite or shasta? I love daisies... but I REALLY love Gerber daisies.... but I don't think they would work in zone 4.
2. I also love coreopsis and, now that I think about it, I'm not sure mine survived. I like "nana" ones.... and the deer tend to not eat them.
3. My grass also looks like this... but it is because a deer actually did bed down in it.
4. Have you ever grown hops?
5. I adore sedum... .all sedum.
6. Gorgeous pe-ony.
7. My lavender looks like crap so far.... and all the ones near the steps (well established) died out. I think it is that horrible weed... it kills them.
8. Plants separated by visible mulch are builder basic. Like pale beige walls and those lights that look like boobs. Remember the four little junipers, perfectly spaced and surrounded by rocks, in front of the house in town? I hated them from the moment I moved in until the moment we moved. Nature has her own symmetry.... gardeners should look to nature to develop their design. I'm reading a great book right now on garden design. Maybe someday I will actually do it "right."
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