OK finally got some shots of the garden that are new...
Here is the veggie garden awaiting planting...also have a new raised bed for tomatoes to the right
2010 Garden Photos - Part 13
My patio...last year's big project....and the fountain...love the fountain....
The new bed this year...looks so spartan, but so did the patio bed last year...
The bed between my house and shed...can't wait for those Harlekin roses on the arbor to pop...should be any day now...they match the one on the garage wall. And that pot by the shed has leftover Dalia tubers in it...
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And here is said garage wall...love the Walkers Low catmint...though it likes to snuff out all in it's way...except for the Brookside Geraniums which hold their own...lavender looks good squeezing out the centers this time of year, looks a misshapen mess the rest ;-) That is my original Kordes Harlekin that turns 3 this year trained against the wall. I also have a New Dawn on the end and a Comtesse de Bouchaud clematis...and a Rosemoor clematis on the right...oh, and there is a Julia Child rose about to burst next to the rain barrel...can't wait for next weekend!
Here is my Crystal Fountain clematis, faces the neighbor, but I visit it sometimes.
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Here is my arbor bed...another of last year's big projects...last year was busy! I ripped out the hated burning bush this year and put in a baby paperbark maple...love that! Has some pink knockouts around it and the arbor has McGredy Galway Bay roses on either side with Ville de Lyon clematis...all about to bloom any day...
This is my Roseraie de l'Hay rose...still small, but love it!
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I just liked the composition of this shot...my Sanguine Cranesbill with some 'May Night' Salvia....
Best of my season so far....Nelly Mosser Clematis...doesn't even look real it is so gorgeous! Did some nice self watering window boxes this year, too...my sedum is happy at it's feet and various Digitalis is coming back...so happy with this....PS...I've discovered the clematis likes lime and plant tone a couple times in the spring...Oh, and there is a Dublin Bay climbing rose in there somewhere with Nelly...has lots of buds.
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Here is a closeup of Nelly....
Here's a back shot of the patio bed. I have to say, I'm very happy with the color scheme so far...just green, some blue and pink mixed in. We'll see how the season progresses. Last summer was a bit insane with so many competing colors...I try to coordinate it but sometimes it goes horribly awry....as my sister-in-law politely put it last July "you have a lot of flowers" translation..."I'm going blind!". Last year I had these acid colored nasturtiums, these horrible bright orange dwarf cosmos I grew from seed, and a bunch of 'Cut and Come Again' zinnias mixed into this bed. This year I'm leaving all of that out! I just let the perennials do their thing and see how that goes...annuals in pots only...that is my new motto!
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And to finish up the most glorious addition of all this year...edging for all the beds! I hired a high school kid to put this in for me, doing all my beds...it is the really wide black plastic edging with a lip you get at Home Depot in 60' boxes....nice commercial grade stuff, and doesn't frost heave. It also has a 20 year warranty...we did the veggie garden 5 years ago and it holds up great. I would have liked to do stone, but can't afford that...I'll have a lot less weeding now without stuff running from the lawn into my beds...
Fantastic pictures all. Bill I like the siting of irises against the wall as well as other plants around the rock. Nuts for daylily Try Persian Berry from plant file on your unknown purple iris--the orange beards made we think of it. Great pictures, Miles. I liked the way your beds looked.
PS...in the previous pic that is an unnamed own-root J&P rose that is cream colored on the left, and Don Juan climber on the right, some mint in the pot from a friend and a Hudline clematis growing up the bamboo that I'm hoping will cover a lot of my 20' vinyl clad chimney....
Miles - beautiful! I really like that natural looking arbor. Did you assemble/make it yourself or have somebody made it, or you bought it like that. I really like to have something like that in a corner of my garden. If you bought it, may I know where? I've been looking all over the net but can't find any. I was thinking of making one out of birch tree trunks and branches. That is - if I can find some fallen birch tree. Might have to go to some wooded areas.
Tex: Thanks, I built that with a friend.
I looked everywhere for a rustic arbor and could not find one. And you see them in every magazine which is frustrating...then I called every lumber company in town and finally one told me that the place to get rustic cedar logs is the local farmers. So I looked on the Craigslist for NE Connecticut and there was one advertising logs for $6.00 each!
So I got those and built the arbor using that wood, some apple tree branches for the smaller supports and some nice swan epoxy coated deck screws. I know it is rot resistant wood, but still did not want to have ground contact. So I sank 2' pieces of pressure treated lumber into the ground (I know you're supposed to do 4', but with my rocks that was not happening) and surrounded the posts with gravel. I then got the pre-made post brackets at home depot and screwed the posts to the logs...I'm very happy with it. We make a lot of small fences and arbors from branches too, but the small stuff only lasts a couple years since we don't use cedar.
Very nice!!!!
Tex, here is a bit closer shot of the arbor.
Oh, and here is one more pic and I swear I'll stop...
Lots of things out in this bed
In this bed too. It is in need of weeding.
This is siberian 'Here be Dragons'. I got it from Joe Pye Weed.
This is a miniture tall bearded(MTB) Billie the Brownie. It's one my my Dad's. This photograghed more purple than it is. It's more brown in person.
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This is one of IrisMA's, 'Margaret Beaufort'
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Wow - looks great, Miles and Lucy! Love the wide shots.
Miles - Thanks! Yeah, like what I said I can't find any sold anywhere. Sounds like a big project but will be so worth it.
I'm also considering a drive to the Amish community in PA. Those people are the best when it comes to wood structures or anything natural or rustic looking.
Thanks Victor...I was meaning to ask you, I was looking at your pics the other day attached to your profile...they are great...did not see long shots, do you have some? Did I ask you this before? Probably but it has melted out of my brain by now.
Tex...that sounds great...actually once you get the materials, the building of the arbor takes only a few hours with a couple friends.
Miles
Thanks. Yes, I do post some from time to time. Not in PlantFiles since that is for individual plants.
Tex...as a test just did a quick search on Craigslist for cedar posts on the Jersey Shore site...
May 3 - Cedar posts - $1 - (readington) farm & garden
May 1 - Cedar Lumber - $1 - (Bridgeton, NJ) materials
Apr 26 - Cedar Posts - (Northern NJ) farm & garden
Apr 25 - Cedar Natural Fence Posts 6-ft - $100 - (Newton,nj) pic farm & garden
Apr 22 - CEDAR-CEDAR - (scotdale) materials
Apr 15 - Cedar Posts - farm & garden
Seems like there are plenty of people selling them down your way if the Amish thing does not work out...if you want more pics someday of how it is constructed, dmail me and I'll send you some...a chop saw, cordless drill, and post hole digger are all the tools I used.
Great arbor Miles. gardens are for creative people. I haven't seen Jumper 2's garden in the late spring before--not a time when we visit.
Miles - thanks for all the information. Very helpful. I'll check-out Craig's list. I also frequent a flea market in my area on weekends where vendors sells plants they grow in their farms. I'll ask them too if they have any materials.
I went out in the gardens for the last hour and what do I see? 3 tall Myrtle trees that could benefit on some trimming and pruning. It dawned on me those Myrtle trees got a nice natural finish on their trunks and branches. Perfect for a rustic looking trellis,I think I'm going to build a small one for now out of those.
wow the blooms are pouring in.. keep em coming!!!
Iris.
Geranium.
Betty Corning.
Triple Crown blackberry.
Coppertina transitioning to seedheads.
Last - near the pond.
love the shot near the pond Victor.... when is the best time to see your garden?