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

bbrookrd wrote:
Wha, we will feed him well and we are giving him the house for a week in Aug. Though he and his wife and child are welcome anytime. He is my son's godfather and one of my oldest friends. His wife had to stay in NYC to work this week while he and his daughter came here for her winter school vacation. She is 9 and we have arranged for her to help at a stable this week in exchange for riding. She is in heaven.

The only problem is that he has bigger plans for our property than ever possible. He had me enlarging our endless stream this morning to include a bridge and a koi pond. He had it all laid out in his mind and was willing to start digging today. No way. But I love his energy.

I love the colors in Anitabryk2 July garden. That orange and yellow combo is perfect. I need some Black-Eyed Susans. I did order one called 'Henry Eilers' which I now think I will mix with some orange and yellow DL's as I am seeing in your garden.

irisMA, Thanks, it has been done over a long time, as we first started clearing the property in 1981 and started planting in 1983. But since 2000, I have had much more time to really work on it.

Here is a collage of the endless stream through it's first season. It is now over a year old, so it should be much better next year. I am hoping that many of the shade plants and ferns we put in last summer survive their first winter. My friend wanted to have us enlarge it to meander way past the current bench into a clearing that use to be our veggie bed and become a large pond. Too funny. Patti