Specialty Gardening: Bare Dirt to Cottage Garden (in Pictures), 2 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
I have really been enjoying following this thread and seeing photos of all of your gardens.

Wifeygirl wrote:Welcome, Carolyn...thanks so much for following along. You can't keep us hanging! Pics please!! We don't care about the date, just whatever you've got, and whatever you're working with now! =D

Thank you Ginger and Wifey for the warm welcome.


Wifey - The best part is that I don't know where to begin!

When we bought this place, the backyard was a dog run. That was 18 years ago. We had said that we wish we had taken pictures when we first started working on the yard. Since then, we have put in a privacy fence, an arborvitae hedge, a row of lilacs as well as various other flowering shrubs and trees and several ponds - each time the pond area becoming larger and larger until we can no longer expand the pond unless we move.

Unfortunately, I had a computer crash in 2010 and lost all my photos. I do have a few stray photos from pre 2009 that I pulled from DG when I had previously posted.

Looking at my photos, I have noticed that I am not very good at taking photos of the whole thing. I have many vignettes of things going on in the back and side yards.

In 2009 or so we put a small pergola over the back door and last year, my stepson and his wife built a larger pergola over the grilling area on the deck. I have some climbing roses and more clematis (I am an admitted clematis and heuchera addict!) ordered to help fill in the newest pergola.

These first couple of photos are some of the ones I had pulled previous to the computer crash. The first on the left is against the base of the deck and I am thinking of going back to coneflowers, because I am not happy with the daylilies I have there now. The second picture is the 2nd pond. You can see bits of my soon to be cottage garden to the left of the pond.