Beginner Gardening: My worst garden spot -my walkway that everyone sees .Yikes!!, 1 by LadyAethelwyne

LadyAethelwyne wrote:
I like the idea of shrubs more and more. The prettiest parts of my yard are where my Granny's shrubs (rose of sharon, pink one I can't remember the name, climbing wild roses, and forsythia) or my shrubs (burning bush, lavender, rosemary, butterfly bush) are. Here is a picture of my garden in later spring with all of the bushes on that end in bloom. You can see a corner of my porch garden before it started to look so bad. The rosemary is already starting to look crooked there (picture from 4/1/08). It looked really bad by last fall, when I moved the poor plant!

I'm really getting excited about the idea of lattice planter boxes, missingrosie. My mom gave me small boxes about 8 inches high, but they didn't really stand out and I wasn't sure about using them ( they are the clay colored boxes in front of the bikes in 1st picture). I'm going to go to Lowe's and do some planning!

I hope ya'll like this picture. It shows my garden in a better light than the dead of winter ones above (grin). Don't worry, my nephew knows to stay on the grass paths with his ATV. He loves driving around my garden and under my arbor.