My favorite view of the mid-garden

My favorite view of the middle garden area. This is my view from the lower patio.

Marc

Marc,

I see why that is your favorite. What a beautiful yard. How long did it take you to get it looking that good?

We baught the house 12 yeasr ago.....I started one design then.....this is design #4. LOL
It seems I'm never satisfied. :-)
Glad you liked the pic.....thanks for the compliment.

Marc

Marc,
You have beautiful AND NEAT garden. What is on the right side with yellow flowers?
Kaleem

Marc,
Your garden looks beautiful. I hope in 12 years mine will look as good.
I like how you did the rock pathways thru it all.
Carol

Couldn't tell you what the yellow is Kaleem....I lost the tag soon after planting those. They are a wonderful perennial but do get a bit floppy in late season.
Glad you liked the garden pic. :-)

Marc

Marc, it is just beautiful.

beautiful view! did wild horses make it? belinda

Belinda, 'wild horses' did indeed make it.....I've gotten three blooms off of the one scape, and managed to miss the bloom on two of them....the third and last one should bloom either today or tomorrow and I just refuse to miss it. LOL
Glad you all liked the garden view :-)

Just a beautiful setting. All your hard work is paying off big time.

More pics please, I need inspiration.

You mentioned Wild Horses, can we see that garden?

Looks great Marc. You've put a lot of work in it and it shows!!
If only my DH would do more than mow the grass.

Here is a collage of the front garden...where 'Wild Horses' is located......is hard to see but it is near center of the collage by the large 'sum and substance' hosta.

Marc

Patio containers, hosta bed, and fern grotto....................

Marc

Outstanding! Maybe you need to quit being so hoggy and send those wild horses somewhere else!
:) Donna

Glad you liked the pix Donna.....I think however for now at least I will continue to be 'hoggish' :-)

Marc

Oh, Marc, your garden spaces are dreamy! So vibrant and varied, manicured without being pretentious, and oh so inviting to walk through and touch... even through the screen of my monitor. :)

Did I spot an Ostrich Fern with some variegated vinca major beneath it in your 3:53 p.m. collage? We have of each, and love watching the fern unfurl in the springtime!

Thank you for sharing the beauty you enjoy each day.
TF Donna

P.S. Did you realize someone laid a brick in your birdbath? *giggles and ducks*

Tutti, I'm so glad you liked the pix. :-) The gardens do bring me a great deal of joy and peace...but I'd say that's true for each of us here on DG or we wouldn;t be gardeners.
Yes that is ostrich fern and vinca 'minor'....good eye. :-)
Oh and yes there is a brick in my bird bath....gives the birdies somewhere to land. The bath is deeper than some and the birds didn;t use it until I added the brick :-)

Marc

Ahhh... while I was teasing you ever so slightly about the brick (wicked play on words), I discovered that as well when I set up a conical shaped container as a birdbath last year. Of course I filled the cone with rocks, but it was only after I'd added some large/flat stones along half of the actual bathing area that *ALL* of the birdies would enjoy -- wrens and finches in the shallow area, robins in the deeper one. All could easily drink, as well.

And I just couldn't help but notice your use of Washington natives alongst with the other lovelies. :)

TF Donna

Very nice Marc.

Why not try to take a shot from the neighbour's rooftop [seen in the background in the first pic]? You'll get a wonderful view from there!

Dinu

It is so fun to see your garden marc.. I see your name everywhere - and now there's a garden to go with it. What a lovely place you've created.

Thanks Doss :-)

Marc
How you combine these photos in one photo?
Kaleem

I use a photo editing program called Kai's Soap2....very easy to use program for making collage groupings like I do. :-)

Marc

Marc isn't the program you use only for Mac computers?
:) Donna

LOL........................
kaleem

Nope....don't have a MAC :-)

Great garden Marc. Don't I remember a shot you posted some time ago of the backyard that showed it sloping down with mostly lawn? If so this sure has been an enormous amount of work. The deck construction is very nice too. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks balvenie :-) The area diud indeed use to be a sloped area of lawn. I finally found all of my before pictures, and am working on a collage of before and after pictures.
I'll post a new thread once assembled. :-)
My back always starts hurting everytime I look at those pictures......uuuuggggghhhhh LOL

Your garden is so pretty! I really must divide my plants. Oh... but that means so much work. I am planning a new area now. It is so hot and humid here during July and August. I noticed the watering can. I collect vintage ones.
Teresa

Glad you liked then pix Teresa. :-) The watering can was a $.25 cent garage sale find...leaks badly, but looks cute in the landscape

I can see in one of your photo... fern with blue flower. May I know the name of the Fern? Is that MG flower?
Kaleem

:-) kaleem that is a glass flower I fill with bird seed for the smaller birds that visit the front garden......I just stuck it in the fern for effect. :-)

Marc

Marc...luv your garden...and all the variety. Continue to share your pics.

Thanks Deb :-)
I'll post a pic of the before here shortly.....can't find the before before pix, but did find a few from my earliest beginnings.

Marc

Here is a collage of pix I ran across from a very early point in the 'Before' life of the garden.
These show about 3 months of work.....I had made my first stab at terracing the gentle sloping backyard.

Marc

Glass flower....ohhhhh ...cheating....LOL
You really did very hard work and in a result have beautiful garden.
Kaleem

Cheating yup that's me :-)

Wow! Gorgeous! Wish mine looked even close!

By the way, your Black and Blue Salvia is about to bloom!! I will take a pic when it does! :)

Nicole

Oh how exciting Nicole! I am SO glad you were able to get the seed to sprout and grow.
I look forward to the pic........
And thank you for the compliment on my garden :-)

Marc