Northeast Gardening: Garden clubs, 1 by gardenmart

gardenmart wrote:
I have hosta, daylilies, siberian and tall bearded iris all in my garden because I am at the top of a hill! I tend to garden with things that will hold the soil to this hillside as it is a thinner layer of soil on the hillside on top of rock! Sometimes you have to garden with what you've got. i love these plants because of the vast variety of them all. I have places where I can put bulbs in the bed along my driveway & it is straight rows of daffodils because that's where the soil depth is for them. However, I have tried to break up the straight rows of hosta on the other side by using different varieties with different colors and leaf textures. They still have to be in a straight row, but the differences fool the eye. I use a lot of containers at the top near the house because my husband won't let me dig up part of the driveway to make flower beds where all the sun is! I never understood that, never! I have my houseplant shelf out there along the house where my indoor plants go for their summer vacation, and other containers for annuals and what not. It has been fun and a challenge gardening here for the last 28 years.
Martha
here's a picture of the plant vacation shelf from a couple of years ago. Note the blacktop in the left of the picture.