Tulipa humilis 'Magenta Queen' I like to name my gardens. I don't like to force the names. I wait for the names to come to me. The overall name of my gardens is May Dreams Gardens. Repeat after me... "All year I dream of the days of May, when the sun is warm, the sky is blue, the grass is green and the garden is all new again." When I reviewed the garden designer's plans, and realized the "east perennial border" would be planted to have peak bloom in August and early fall, it seemed … [Read more...] about Another Perennial Border is Named
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Garden Design Update: Planting vs. Plopping
August Dreams Garden border, newly planted We were sitting at my kitchen table a few weeks ago, the garden designer, the hort-enabler and I, going over the plant lists for the groundcover garden, the high summer garden, and the shrub border. After reviewing and approving the list of plants for the high summer garden, which I’ve dubbed “August Dreams Gardens”, I casually mentioned that maybe I would dig up the ditch lilies on the side of the house and move them to that garden. In a near … [Read more...] about Garden Design Update: Planting vs. Plopping
Rabbits Watching Over The Garden: A Garden Design Update
The rabbit watches over the placement of plants for a ground cover garden around the locust tree. Up by the patio, this garden will be calm, serene, a sea of greens to rest my weary eyes on after a hard day of work. Won't that be nice? The garden designer and her digging guy will be planting that garden today along with some other new borders. Details to follow. I wonder what the garden designer would think if I added just a few bulbs in there this fall? I would choose quiet plants like … [Read more...] about Rabbits Watching Over The Garden: A Garden Design Update
Forbs in a Matrix
Forb n. A broad-leaved herb other than a grass, especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow. ~~~~~ I met with the garden designer and the hort enabler Monday evening to go over plant lists and plans for three areas of my garden that will be planted up in mid-April. I’ve named one of the garden areas “August Dream Garden” because it is a “high summer garden” designed to peak in August – September. We’ll be planting many native prairie-type wildflowers in that area. Slowly, the … [Read more...] about Forbs in a Matrix
Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Sixth Secret
I'll admit I was excited when I learned that there were several more secrets to achieving happiness in your garden other than first five secrets I had discovered so long ago. I was on high alert. I wanted to find these new secrets, wherever they were and whatever they were, as fast I could grow radishes in the springtime. Every day as I tended the garden, I looked for stray scraps of paper that might have a secret written on them. I turned over rocks to see if a secret might be hidden … [Read more...] about Achieving Happiness In Your Garden: The Sixth Secret
August Dreams Border
And the answer for what will be planted in the East Perennial Border lies in the working name I have given it… August Dreams Border. It will be planted with various perennials, bulbs, and grasses so that its crescendo will occur in autumn, with a nice build up starting in August. There will be little hints of color through the spring and early summer, but not enough to take away from the West Perennial Border, which I suppose should now be called… May Dreams Border. These names will help me … [Read more...] about August Dreams Border
