Gardener discretion advised! lol - I am going to show you pictures of my garden - starting with a view from above so you see the "lay of the land" Areas without flowers are not barren - just stuff hasn't started blooming yet.
oh - and please excuse my lack of ability as both gardener and photographer - I am a newbie to both!
the white spots are white rocks around the lavender.
The back garden is primarily a fragrance garden. Here goes . . .
Looking on the half-circle garden - the stuff in-between the "rock" path is bent grass. DH's idea - not mine. I am trying to convince him that it should be thyme. Don't worry. I will win that argument too. :-)
See? In front of the arbour? I have planted thyme . . . much nicer :-)
A little Niki hydrangea - planted around it are annual larkspur - imperial magestics - which should bloom in a couple of weeks (winter-sowed these) and delphinium (Clear Springs mix - winter-sowed these).
Seandor, that is definitely an Eden in the making.
Did you do it in bits or just go whole hog one day?
I'm definitely with you on the thyme.
another hydrangea
I get up early (usually before 6 am) and work in the gardens until about 9:30. The Fragrance garden is new from last fall. :-)
Wax begonias as a flowering hedge with Johnson's Blue Hardy Geranium in the background
Pansies that I winter-sowed.
petunias I grew all by mysef . . .
VERY impressed.
coleus for DH (I think they are gaudy . . . )
Not a very good shot . . . the white rose is Seandor (aka Margaret Merril) at the base is thyme. In the foreground is linaria (thanks pixie) - I will never be without linaria again! I just have to figure out how to save the seeds. (winter-sowed the linaria). In the back ground are bachelor buttons (also winter-sowed)
Close up of my bachelor buttons.
First blooms of Veronica Sunny Border Blue
lousy picture of dianthus Helen
The seeds for this little cutie came from Ireland! Viola - blackberry cream sorbet (I think!) (winter sowed)
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snapdragons - winter sowed - blossoms starting. In the background are datura from Kassia.
My tree rose - Tournament of Roses
Seander---thanks for the garden tour and photos of your personally grown flower collection! Very impressive.
And I love the stone work in your paths, how pretty!
You got some great blue BB from your winter sowing--you have given me a new idea! t.
Here is a close-up of the rose
sweetpeas
another sweet pea (I started these inside MUCH too early!)
gladiolas - I think they are going to be orange - anyway, they will probably bloom while we are on holidays
This is a little mini-rose I think it is called Scentsational - it really has a lovely fragrance. Nickname is Frodo
Looking down the garden, towards the arbour
Another mini rose - one of the hobbits.
More hobbits peering through the catmint (Blue Wonder) - and it smells heavenly! (the catmint)
Very nice Michaela - you're getting there! I couldn't tell from your pic, but Sunny Border Blue gets really ugly brown legs so be sure to plant something to hide them. Actually, it did not do great in my garden. Dazzled for the first two years but faded away with each year and the ugly legs got worse. I finally got rid of it.
These are red poppies (winter sown) and Blue skies Pacific Giant delphinium (winter sown). Poppies are about to bloom - don't think I will have any delphinium blossoms this year.
Victor - you are right about the ugly legs! I thought it was something I was doing wrong lol
Pink coneflowers. - well, they're supposed to be pink. I moved them last year from the front yard where they never bloomed.
Seandor,
Just beautiful!! I love the way you've laid out your garden, and the initial aerial shot is so neat. What a wonderful design!
lisianthus about to bloom. I have bought 6 more large containers - 3 are for Brugs (Equador Pink) and 3 are for Datura - Blackcurrant Swirl. These containers will go on the driveway behind the lisianthus. Don't you love Our Old Truck? Until yesterday, the bed of the truck was filled with gardening debris - mostly plant pacs and containers, etc. Yesterday, I washed all of them and safely stored them for next season. Now DH can get Our Old Truck repaired so we can go camping in August. Hurray! (l love camping!)
Thank-you BDale60. I had to climb though my bedroom window on the second floor of Our Old House to get the picture. There is a kind of mock balcony. An adult can stand on it - but no french doors, alas.
Daylilies, with Johnson's Blue Geranium and hydrangea in the background. do you see my fairy in the corner? She is supposed to glow in the dark (and she does - in a closet). I might get DH to paint her with a marblized finish.
You have both a green thumb and a fearless quality. We like that in a gardener!!
Check out our effort (my wife's actually) to take the same kind of shot in "Adventures in Trellising" over on the Vegetable Gardening forum.
Happy gardening!! :)
The front garden border.
I will definitely check it out . . thanks
looking down from the veranda
