Specialty Gardening: Garden Shots- Share your "whole garden" pictures here!, 1 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
Lovely shots everybody!

Tammy, your garden room has matured so beautifully- everything is getting huge!

tabasco, for years June was a "green only" month in my garden- spring perennials finished and summer annuals lagging. Your garden looks cool and serene with nicely contrasting textures, a nice look between bloom flushes.

Sherry, I love the crimsons you've added to that garden area! Such a pretty contrast with all the cool colors, and really stands out in the more shadowed areas.

I visited a garden in Bowlingreen, KY last week that I found so charming and inspirational. It belongs to a single mom who's renting a tiny house on a farm. The setting is lovely and she has transformed the house and lawn into the most adorable cottage-cottage garden. Practically everything she has inside and out were free or from thrift stores and rummage sales. She repairs, paints, and refinishes lots of pieces she finds, and displays rustic pieces so nicely in the garden. She is a horticulturist employed by Western KY University, and has access to free starts of lots of plants (throw aways, cuttings, collected seed, etc.).

I was most inspired by her cottagy food garden. This shot was taken as I was walking from the house toward the garden. In front of the split rail fence, there are several varieties of Daylilies, Lilies, variegated pineapple mint, and Fennel.