The after garden

This is our frontage now. it was planted out in December last year and all the plants are behaving themselves and growing well. It would be really interesting to see other before and after pics, hope that we will see other gardens from go to whoa

WoW! Fantastic color & hardscaping!

Ferrymead - I don't know if you realize your before & after went into two different threads.
You might use "post reply" in this forum and post the before picture so folks won't have
to search around. (Or maybe go to the "before" thread and "post reply" and post the after
picture there.

Great job! I'd love to hear more about the transformation & what plants you used.

Tam

Wow, lovely flowers./foliage.! Wish that we were going into growing season, instead of
dormancy.

Definitely Whoa! It looks great!

wowzers ferrymead!

Thanks so much Tam, will take up your suggestion...... and will keep it in mind for when I post about our back yard which is a work in progress.
My dh and I did it together, he did all the blockwork and planted all the trees, flowering cherry,,
2 maganolias and the Bloodgood maple and I did all the shrubs, crepe mrytles, heuchera, nandina, pittisporum, roses, manukas, mock orange (snan't bring to mind their correst name!!) dianthus and felicia etcl.,.

H:ad one disaster, the lawn seed had been planted abut three days when we got a torrential downpour of rain. You can guess what happened? Yeas, the seed washed into the garden beds and I am still puling it out.LOL

A;though I said go to whoa, i always leave spaces for annuals, i am tossing up whether to put in impatiens or petunias.

Yes, i am really happy that our growing season is with us, so wonderful to have my plants doing their darndest to look pretty.
Tess

Oh darn, I got that wrong. Meant to post the before picture.

Got lost within my photos but have tracked it down now. LOL
Tess

Tess,

How exciting for us northern hemisphere types to have you here! You can share
with us your summer while we struggle with green-withdrawl during the winter.

I'm not familiar with manukas. I'll have to go look that up.

And how awful with that rainstorm! Grass is one of the worst weeds. But the
garden looks just beautiful so you're keeping it up beautifully.

OK - can't wait for more photo's. :-)

Tam

Ferrymead~ a very nice transformation indeed! Like the grey stonework "fer sure"! ;0)

Here is one of my befores n afters .. I divided my backyard in half .. one side tropical and the other side Charleston/English Garden. This is the tropical side. The after was taken last June so the brugs and canna weren't really blooming all that much.

X

Wow! Are you going to show us the English Garden?

(Did you see there is a move afoot to start at Cottage Gardening forum?)
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/652468/

Tam

The Charleston/English side is just bare bones right now .. the Confederate Rose hedge which will be mature next year will be the back drop. Tess's pictures of her beautiful front garden has given me some great ideas for color schemes. At the moment all that's there is a Franklin tree, some roses and a Lady Banksia Rose. These last 2 years I've been concentrating on the Tropical side. Next year I hope to finish the Tropical side and do a little bit more on the Charleston/English side. I'm just a little old lady doing it all myself, so it's takes me a bit longer than most to get things done.

I really really like that stone work you've done Tess!

X

Xera, Your tropical garden is just so beautiful and lush, it must give you a grat dal of pleasure. I will pass on your words about the stonework to m d h.... I really think it sets off the plants so well.

Tam, I had a look at your hyperl ink... just the place for plant junkies like me. Did a posting on it and lets hope it comes to fruition

Hey Ferrymead just found your great frontage. Well done! Now the neighborhood will be jealous. Beautiful.

Thanks safersig, there are about 30 gardens in our street, many have been professionally landscaped. Most of these are for people who are both working and wanted a garden that once planted, could be left to itself. Many have lots of stones mulch and planted with grasses, flaxes and evergreen shrubs and trees but there are about 6 or seven of us who have created our own and they are all more colourful at all times of the year.
Here is a pic of the clematis that is in its second year of blooming. It is called 'Elizabeth and it smells of chocolate.....yummy. However it is very vigorous and I have to clip back its tendrils all summer as it is intent on growing bigger and bigger.

Gosh, must be losing my marbles as I forgot to post the pic. Here it is

I have planted it on the boundary fence and it is intent on living next door but I inTesstend to make it beave itself LOL

Now that's a clematis for me! Beautiful, smells like chocolate & zero calories!
Tam

ferrymead, It is hard to believe the before and after are the same garden, WOW. The wall, colors and shapes are so beautiful. What a sense of accomplishment it must be. I have to see if that clematis will grow here in zone 4.

You live in Clematis heaven. That is wonderful to see today cause the snow hit us big time last night and all of my flowers are buried in snow. Thank you and keep we Northern Hemisphere people living in NZ beauty.

Oh in looking for the clematis, I have gotten one web site that says zone 4 and another zone 6. Many don't tell me. Many of the sites are in the UK so no zone listings. I will keep looking, BUT I found this web site that all of we chocolate lovers should drool

over.http://www.chocolateflowerfarm.com/home

Hi Zenpotter, thanks for your reply. One of the sites about the Elizabeth clematis told me only for zones sever to nine. I have planted another three clematis this spring, here is one called 'Sunset'. I hope it will grow tall and cover the pergola.

Hi Zenpetter, I had a look at one site regarding the Elizabeth clematis and it says for zones sever to nine. I have planted two other clematis, poor Dr Rupele wilted, I think I waterlogged its roots but MDH has lifted it and thinks it may survive so he has cut it back and here's hoping. This is a pic of of one ccalled Sunset and I hope it grows up tall and strong.

Awwww Saferdig, I feel for you and your lovely flowers all covered in snow.

There is still snow on th mountains which surround our area (they are not very tall mountains) and our weather is very changeable. Today we have been out getting in the last few rows of the Calla tubers which we size up for export and my sweatShirt was on and off all day, only two more rows to go and if the weather stays dry it will be all finished on Thursday.

I do have some sonow in my garden, lovely snowballs on the Viburnum (hope I have got that name correct). It's heavy heads were almost bent down to the ground with the heavy rain and gales we had last week.

Kepp warn, Tess

Your pictures keep me dreaming of next year. I am planting a bunch of trees and shrubs before the soil freezes. Maybe today is my last day. Your garden is wonderful. Though even in the snowy winter my garden can be beautiful. Delicate grasses with fluffy powder.

I hate to admit it but, that fluffy stuff can be beautiful.

Tess-
What are those little flowers under your 'Elizabeth'? They looks so dainty and pretty!
thanks
-Taylor

Hi Taylor, they are just little 'forget me nots', they come up everySpring and I enjoy them while they bloom. The purple colored ones are Cinerias (don't think thatis spelled correctly.

Thank you
I've never grown forget-me-nots. They are just adorable. I'll have to try some
-T

Saferdig, while you over there were enjoyinbg your summer I had to feel envious of your summer plantings but I don't feel the same about having to get trees and shrubs planted before the ground freezes. Does MT stand for Montana? Big mountain country there.
Must be a long way from the sea so here is a pic of a beach about a ten minute drive from where we live.
Tess

That is just wicked!!!!!

I think that particular kind of torture is banned under the Geneva Convention (Denver, 20* and windy tonight, and every night until spring)

OMG - that is gorgeous ferrymead!!! The sky is so blue and are those mountains too?
Tam

Thank you Ferrymead for the joy of the warm sand under my feet. I so enjoyed the smell of the offshore breeze. So pleasant to live where you are. Yes we are in Montana and yes I am here cause of the big mountains, clear rivers, deep freshwater lakes, and Snow to ski POWDER!

Greemjay amd Saferdig, both from big mountanin country, so lovely op have your comments, Tammy, your mountains might be the same as our Takaka range (known as the marble mountain of which this stone range is composed, but only 792 metres high, not in your league. Our highest mountain is just 12,000 odd feet ( I remember that from the days when we used to use the Imperial measures !)

Rena tellyne..... I don't believe Texas has any mountains, well, if what I remember from watching J R and his family on the show called "Dallas" som many years ago was a true depiction of your state.

Gosh that was a ong time ago when we all had big shoulder pads in our gowns. LOL

Thanks to you all, Tess