Northeast Gardening: Show us your garden beds!, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
This is another on the east side of the house but mostly looking towards the house. Every kind of culinary herb and wildish stuff like DL, Lavendar, Nepta, Box, Germander, Marigolds, Rosa rugosa, Sedum, Alliums, Eryngium, Nicotiana, Antirrhinum, Cosmos, Dianthus, Hebe, Alchemilla, Gaura, Cranesbill, Leucanthemum, Zinnia, Achillea, Iris and of course lilies and in the spring tons of bulbs. I also have a lot of containers that I pop in when things are "thin". It is a bit unruly, but smells good always.

I have been hoping to add Echinacea, but I seem to kill them. In one picture you can see a disjointed small round bed that has a sundial in the middle. That has always bugged me. The sundial covers up our well. I think I am going to connect it to the bed which is currently anchored by the Alberta spruce. That spruce was in a small Xmas tree in a pot on my desk at the bookstore back in the mid 80's until I planted it. Looking at my pictures today has settled it about that silly little round bed. I will have to dig the connection when DH is away or he will say I am "encroaching". I have plenty of plant material for it including a couple of nice oak leaf Hydrangea that I started a few years back as well as lots of iris that need dividing, plus DL's. Patti