Hey everyone~
After two years my yard is coming alive! My small beds are filling in. I am hoping in the next five years my slope will eventually become a full English Cottage Garden. But here is a pictures of it from this spring. The daisies, day lilies, and cornflowers should be sprouting up soon. Thanks for everyone's help! :)
This first pictures looking at the left side of the stairs from the top of the stairs
this pictures is the right side looking from the bottom
day lilies are growing on either side of the granite stairs. Sedum and Irish moss are growing in the cracks of the stairs
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small bed with my wonderful rain barrel. Can someone tell me why my lilies are not growing? Do I need to separate them? They are behind the butterfly bush.
thanks everyone I feel like I have accomplished so much in the few years we have been here. This is my first real yard and I can't believe how addicted I am to plants!
my herb garden with a small strawberry patch in it
Everything looks just beautiful - the colors, the shapes and the design. GOOD JOB! lotsa work but worth it!
Very nice. Your hard work is paying off. Your Daylilies look nice and healthy. Is the problem they haven't bloom? Do you know what kind they are? Maybe they're late bloomers. Even really crowded DL's will bloom. You may just have to give them time. Wait until late summer, early fall if you want to divide them. You're in a warmer zone than I. Mine are just sending up scapes now.
You're really going to enjoy all your hard work for years to come. It will just get prettier and prettier.
they are tiger lilies and the ones that I split from that group a year ago and put in the front yard are blooming now. They look very green and lush but no sprouts or blooms.
Oops. Thought you had daylilies. Since Tiger Lilies are bulbs, maybe they are too crowded.
Looks great!
I really love it especially the Japanese Maple. Where did you get the idea? Also, would you be able to name some of the plants for me. I am looking for something ever green for zone 9 with color. I like the light whiteish bushes.
Sorry plantsforpeg..my small boys and my garden kept me really busy this summer!! My ideas come from plants that I just love to look at and from my friends on this website. One thing I also love is color and texture all year long so I try to balance my perennial plants with low to no maintenance shrubs and trees.
I think the plant you are referring to (if your talking about the white ones on the big hill) are thyme (light pink flowers). They get beautiful little flowers in the spring and in the winter (in this zone) the leaves shrink a little but turn dark reddish green.
Some of my favorite plants are daylilies, shasta daisies, tiger lilies, peonies, cornflowers, Russian Sage, lupine.
For shrubs I love "erica" it is a low growing evergreen but has beautiful little white or pink flowers in the late winter to early spring. THIS might be a great shrub for you to look into.
The blue ones behind the Japanese maple are blue star juniper (to either side are phlox)
Carpet Cypress that is low growing (behind the plum tree between the trumpet flowers) the the foliage is a deep red in the winter.
I love azaleas too, for their all year color and their beautiful flowers in the spring.
What a wonderful large space you have to work with. It looks lovely. I love the color contrasts in your photo with the butterfly bush. I was wondering how you got your butterfly bush to look so full and dense. Do you cut it back a couple of times during the growing season?
Your garden looks lovely!! I wish I have land as big as yours. lots of room . Where is 6a? Bellie
I am always cutting the butterfly bush! It was this tiny lanky thing the first year I put it in and the second year it looked okay but for the past two years. I trim it throughout the summer because I love the flowers in a vase!!! I also cut it in areas that are blocking my other plants or touching my Japanese maple. I cut it back in the fall too. It is just so out of control all summer that I just cut away at it! I am in 6a in MA.
