Beginner Gardening: "Wild" garden vs. tidy gardens which do you prefer, 1 by City_Sylvia

City_Sylvia wrote:
Dont you guys think you are being a little modest about your gardens? :) I have never seen so much color in one place...other than the garden magazines....yours are so beautiful! I have been trying for five or six years to get variable color! How is it that you guys plants bloom all at the same time? I can only take one picture at a time of something in bloom.:( I continue to cram stuff in too!) Then I end up with something that should not be there. I got Acanthus, Dahlias and hardy hibiscus, daylillies crammed in the same area. I got trumpet vines growing on top of the Mimosa tree. Thats a good thing because that area shades my Hostas and Heliaborous. I got a Confederate Jasmine that has to be moved because its not getting sun anymore. I got move the Acanthus because its getting too much sun. I got a gunnera to move into more shade...thank God its in a pot. In the back part of my place where I get nothing but sun...I got this Lady Banks rose bush that manage to climb the 12 ft fence and going everywhere even in the neighbors court yard, he loves it though! :) Since they replaced my 8ft fence with 12 ft and choped down the honeysuckle I dont have anything for my Clemitis to climb up on...oh its just too much. My courtyard is a mess and over grown! I cant handle this all by myself .... yet I still buy plants ....
Sylvia
my lady banks rose bush early in the season

This message was edited Jul 13, 2005 7:52 AM