Pacific Northwest Gardening: Laurie's Garden Tour, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
Back up at the top, and back to January and looking extremely dull - to the right of the photo there is a new bed that I have been stacking up all autumn (you can see the dark earth, and I think there is a better view of it in one of the earlier postings) - there are a few shrubs in here - 3 salix (noid from a friend), a scented current, hoheria, and a couple of drimas (or is that drymas). Lower down bordering the stepped path I have planted several bayberries, and again gladwyn iris. All except the drimas are grown from cuttings or seed.

to the left of this path is the third bed, and the one that gets the most direct sun. This one is only about 12mtrs from top to bottom. I have cornus at the top, and wrapping around the slope to the outside of the bed, and below that are.....I can't remember. How could I forget - one of my pear trees! At the bottom is a large stand of penstemon: firecracker, red soldier, and blackbird. At the bottom on the inside of the bed is a planting of primula veris (cowslip), primula florindae (the clove scented one) liatris, aquilegia vulgaris (the large blossomed white one), and iris siberica snow queen. These are followed by achillea cassis, cephalaria gigantia, and peucedamun verticillare.

This message was edited Jan 15, 2009 6:46 PM