How does my garden grow...
I'd say the plants are doing pretty well, but the beds are disorderly. Keep in mind that everything is still new. I grew some from seeds and put new perenials in, but have made various changes and need to move stuff around and fill in, as things grow.
The first pic is the Evening Primrose which Iam still removing. Yes the flowers are lovely, but it is tall and weedy. It spreads like wildfire and the foliage is ugly when it's not flowering. What a shame seeing how easy it was to grow...
Next is a lavender double clematis I added last fall to my mailbox. Creeping flox surrounds it, but it wasn't in bloom and I just transplanted some of it. Tehn I have two of my German Bearded Iris. I have 8 or so around the house. These remind me of my grandmother.
Next is a closeup of a new groundcover I just added, with a larger shot of the big front tree plot that has the hostas. The two bigger ones are new this year, a smaller one and two other tinies were sister's transplants working to establish themselves.
Next is a single painted daisy plant I have on the south side of the house. Hope it propagates. I'd like to put some of these interspersed with sister's white daisies when she thins them.
After that is the Lantern plot that DH wanted this year. The clematis and the lavender are permanent, and I'll move some dianthus (shown) here next year.
The next pic is the only plot that is nearly what I want. It looks thi because I just transplanted a few things. There are the soapworts, Snow-in-summer, dianthus pinks and a silver brushy mound that I can't remember the name for. At the end of this are my tomato and asparagus plants.
Next are some sooty sweet William (dianthus) that are propagating well. These are pretty and easy and I like them. But they need to be filled in much more or moved.
Lastly are the mixed dianthus that I'll be moving to the light pole and a lovely tricolored sedum that is filling in under a dwarf apple tree. It needs to be broken up and spread around some. It's green, ivory and pink. You can tell I like pink, huh? I do have more plants, but I'm not the photographer...
The first pic is the Evening Primrose which Iam still removing. Yes the flowers are lovely, but it is tall and weedy. It spreads like wildfire and the foliage is ugly when it's not flowering. What a shame seeing how easy it was to grow...
Next is a lavender double clematis I added last fall to my mailbox. Creeping flox surrounds it, but it wasn't in bloom and I just transplanted some of it. Tehn I have two of my German Bearded Iris. I have 8 or so around the house. These remind me of my grandmother.
Next is a closeup of a new groundcover I just added, with a larger shot of the big front tree plot that has the hostas. The two bigger ones are new this year, a smaller one and two other tinies were sister's transplants working to establish themselves.
Next is a single painted daisy plant I have on the south side of the house. Hope it propagates. I'd like to put some of these interspersed with sister's white daisies when she thins them.
After that is the Lantern plot that DH wanted this year. The clematis and the lavender are permanent, and I'll move some dianthus (shown) here next year.
The next pic is the only plot that is nearly what I want. It looks thi because I just transplanted a few things. There are the soapworts, Snow-in-summer, dianthus pinks and a silver brushy mound that I can't remember the name for. At the end of this are my tomato and asparagus plants.
Next are some sooty sweet William (dianthus) that are propagating well. These are pretty and easy and I like them. But they need to be filled in much more or moved.
Lastly are the mixed dianthus that I'll be moving to the light pole and a lovely tricolored sedum that is filling in under a dwarf apple tree. It needs to be broken up and spread around some. It's green, ivory and pink. You can tell I like pink, huh? I do have more plants, but I'm not the photographer...
