I have started a cottage/border garden combination in the front. It is mostly perennials and big things, so this is planned for a few years (I hope). First, though- here's some pictures of the new puppy, Macy!
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Okay, now for the front garden. I'm going to start with a mistake made and lesson learned.
These are hostas and a hydrangea that I covered today for frost tonight. It has been a very warm spring and these plants may have been tricked. The hostas, in particular, are pretty big already. Here are some elephant ears I also covered more heavily today.
All of these plants were either not covered (hostas, hydrangea) or covered very lightly (elephant ears). There was a light frost last night and they all have light cases of frost burn and/or "droopy." If they are ever this big at a frost again, I need to cover them as pictured. The hyrdrangea leaves are about 3" in diamter. The elephant ears are no more than 1-2" tall.
Now for some more positive pictures of the front garden.
Picture is of the "cottage garden" from the house looking at the road. The teepee trellis is made from rebar. The front right corner is the hydrangea. There were two more of the pine trees and one more grass. I cut the trees down and moved one of the grasses. Front left is the mailbox with iris, daffodils around it. Yarrows is in front left corner, then along the road is the aforementioned mailbox, then some echinicea (can't see), then the irises and some day lilies. There's big hole I want to fill in with something round leaves and flowering. Behind the pine tree is a big bed of day lilies.
From the pine tree in is a nice rose-of-sharon, then a peony bush slightly closer, then the tepee. On either side of the grass are two great elephant ears and between the grass and the mailbox is a patch of calla lilies, gladiolus, echnicea, and some round leaved things.
The bright green bush is a shrub thats turns deep red in the fall and has nice bark in the winter. Bee balm , butterfly weed, and black-eyed susans occupy the near left corner. The orange-red splash is a nice spring flower I don't know the name of; the lamb's ear has tripled in size since last year. The open space next to the lamb's ear is actually cosmos, with garden phlox (the tall kind) between the rose of sharon and the hydrangea.
Whew!
Here's some cool pictures of the above space.
Unknown orange-red flower.
It's 10:30pm. The next post will be a short one picturing the front border bed along the house.
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