Specialty Gardening: Looking for inspiration, 1 by cindyeo

cindyeo wrote:
As promised, here's my back yard garden, pulled back a little, so you can get more of the whole effect. Someone above mentioned mixing in tomatoes, which is what I do, too. The ladder that you see is a tomato support, there's one planted on either side at the bottom of the ladder. There's also lettuce, carrots, beets, scallions, chard, in the sundial garden in the back of the photo which is currently surrounded by the chicken wire fence, hopefully temporary until things grow a little bigger and the bunny moves on to someplace he can access better. The purple flowers you see on the right are culinary sage, all my herbs are planted in that area - oregano, rosemary (which you can see peaking out behind the sage), thyme, chives. There are hollyhocks under the window box, getting ready to open, a species clematis to the left of those, climbing up the side of the house, and to the left of that, under the windows is lavender. Oh, I think you can see another tomato in the very front of the photo, with garlic to the right of it and chamomile to the left. The white lacy flower is orlaya, it self seeds every year, but not too invasive, and you might be able to make out some wine colored flowers mixed in with that, those are a perennial geranium which I bought to cover the ground under my climbing rose (there's a couple of those buds sticking into the photo on the far right), but it ended up being too tall, I may rip that out. On the very left of the photo is some red bee balm which is not blooming yet, and a white peony blossom. There's also foxglove, sedum, and rose campion. Although I didn't plan it that way, I guess this does qualify as a cottage garden, because I do have a lot of stuff going on.