Accessible Gardening: My garden's a tight space..., 0 by doss

doss wrote:
Thanks for telling me your situation Carrie. I know that MS is a moving target and that at the very least it's exhausting just being. Proprioception is so taken for granted when we have it and the lack of it is so devastating when you don't - but you have such a multi-facted disorder that I'm sure that you can't tell what's more devastating than the other.

Like everything in my garden, I tend to plant things that I like and then move them if I don't like them together. It sounds silly but I'm just not that good. I tend to be more of a collector rather than a landscaper. I could have a landscape for less money than I spend on my collections.

Here's the photo of my very beginning hosta garden. I tend to fly in the face of repetition but that part of my garden has clearly been done that way. To tell you the truth, I just had so many of those hostas propagated that I could put them all in a row like that so I did.

For the hostas I tried to vary size, color, and texture. And then I bought what I liked that fit into that concept. It leaves a lot of room to get some beautiful plants. I'm going to have to figure out what to fill in there. Astilbes would be perfect but they need too much water to be under this Oak tree. I'll see what they all look like next spring. Edited to say that I picked a couple of large hostas and then surrounded them with smaller ones so that there is a center of attention.

Then I try to pull it all together with some things that are consistent. The mondo grass and mulch - which I put on after this photo - are good at that. Mulch is great and makes space seem 'on purpose'.

Dax is good at his hosta gardens. He does use a lot of impatiens and I just can't face them anymore. Anyway, his diary is at
http://davesgarden.com/journal/d/m/dax080/

Let me know what you think.

Dorothie

This message was edited Jun 26, 2006 6:50 PM