Pink Gardens' Victorian planters are shaping up nicely this year. I've planted bright chartreuse sweet potato vine, pansies, vinca, spikes, petunias, mini dahlias, perilla, ferns and few things I've forgotten the names of, lol. Hopefully, there will be cascading foliage and tall flowers in these more than 100 year old, 4-feet tall, cast-iron planters. All photos clickable to enlarge, as always!
A lone Japanese iris in the background, framed by my pink Foxgloves.
My pink Foxgloves are more than 6-feet tall! Enlarged, you can see a white Foxglove in the shade garden in the background. I have Foxgloves in the shade and in the sun.
The white Foxglove has deep maroon markings inside each flower.
Sitting pretty in the sun . . . This is part of the condominium yard I pass by every day on my way to town.
A single perfect rose in this condominium complex.
One of my projects this year was to create this meandering path through my side shade garden. I transplanted almost everything this year, making this fun little walkway. I have day lilies, iris, lemon verbena, Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrots), Jack-in-the-Pulpits, Solomon's Seals, and many other plantings here. I've probably spent at least 60 hours this spring in this square garden.
My Solomon's Seals doing what they do best: elegantly bowing over with this cream flowers about to open. Each stem is about 4 feet tall, but they bend over in various ways creating a great flowing look to this shade garden.
Rose Campions are one of my favorite perennials. I have very few in my garden, but I grew up with clusters of them just like this property. This is one of my town's historic home museums.
A long-view of the campions. Their grayish green foliage contrasts perfectly with their bright magenta flowers.
The side shade garden is shaping up nicely this year, too. I've added a lot more ferns and hostas. There is a bed of purple perilla coming up all around everything, as a ground cover, and it contrasts beautifully with the greener foliage. Above, my late mother's granite-hewn bird bath. I bought this handmade rock garden feature for her on Mother's Day sometime in the 1980s.
Visible here is the perilla ground cover. I just caught the 10-minutes of direct sunlight this shade garden receives.
HI PAL, I REMEMBER WORKING THAT MANY HOURS IN MY YARD ALSO. I COULD NEVER GET ENOUGH NOW I CAN SIT BACK, WATCH AND ENJOY ALL YOUR WORK. THESE FLOWERS ARE SO PRETTY. YOU MUST GET SICK OF HEARING ME SAY THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER. I WISH I HAD SOME CLIPPING OF YOUR FLOWERS BUT THERE'S NO ONE TO DO THE PLANTING ANYMORE. GRAMPS HAS ALL HE CAN HANDLE FOR NOW.IT'S RAINNING HARD OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW. I SAY THANK YOU JESUS BEACUSE WE NEED RAIN SO BAD.
ReplyDeleteROSS IS TRYING TO GET HIS BLOG UP AND RUNNING AGAIN. HE MADE A VIDEO AND SAID HE WAS SORRY ABOUT THE BLOG.HE HAS BEEN ONE BUSY GUY.BLESS HIS HEART I HOPE IT STARTS UP AND THE REAL BBS COME BACK. SOME WON'T BE SO FORGIVING. THAT'S OK BECAUSE THEIR THE ONES THAT DIDN'T CARE ENOUGH. I LOOKED AT IT AS HIM EARNING HIS RENT. HE DOES HAVE TO WORK AND PAY HIS BILLS. HE'S ONLY ONE GUY. WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. GO PEEK.
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GRANNY
Have you seen Zsa Zsa the bunny hop down your new trail?
ReplyDeleteGood question, Woody! The rabbits actually stay on the sunny side of the house, closer to the thicket where they can scoot into if a hawk, or a new person, arrives. I have lots of little striped chipmunks though that run through the path all the time. There's a whole community of 'em over there.
ReplyDeleteYou have really been working your buns off, Casey, and it shows. The gardens are beautiful this year. Good job!
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