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Peaceful Plantings

Bailey's Mom

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My small, postage-stamp size garden...full of blooms and colour. If only I could get the pictures to stand up instead of lying down. Grrrrr!
 

Boxergirl

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Beautiful! What do you have in the small pots not yet planted in the ground? I really need to get outside and tidy up my Rose of Sharon bushes. Yous looks so nice and neat. Mine are chaotic.

The pics are right side up on my ipad, but not on my laptop. That's odd. So where do you store your pictures? I've always used photobucket, but they're charging $400 a year to post on third party sites. I just spent a month redoing my waterfall/pond area and I want to share. I don't do social media, so no facebook, etc.
 

Bailey's Mom

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Hey Boxergirl, the tall skinny plant on the table is an extra sunflower that I was going to plant in the side garden when I get it done. Time flies...poor thing, still waiting as are 20 or so annuals that are just crying out for garden love. But I have an excuse, I've been helping neighbour's with their overgrown front gardens and I'm about to tackle the back garden of a new neighbour that just bought her condo. YIKES! It's a jungle. The landscaping crew just trimmed to the paving stones, but it is exploding on all sides making her feel hopeless.

Work, dog, sick relatives, crazy hours...who has time, that's why I love perennials, spring hits (such a bad cold spring), but lilacs in front and gorgeous, purple white and mauve borders jump to life. My foxgloves are blooming, and next year, just behind where I've planted them there will be old fashioned, single bloom hollyhocks, so alternating blooming, year to year. I have always loved hollyhocks...a childhood favorite, so, I've taken time to start them this year, banking on next year's colour while the foxgloves are dormant. If I could only find a perrenial portulacca. Wouldn't that be great!
 

Boxergirl

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Portalucca - is that also known as Purslane? The succulent? I love it, but to my knowledge there is no perennial variety. When we first did our landscaping many years ago I wanted an old country garden look. I had lots of delphinium, foxglove, hollyhocks, etc. Looked great for one year. I didn't realize that by planting everything at once I would have several things dormant the next year. Not that it mattered. We had a harsh winter here that year and nothing came back anyway. Now I've gone to mostly plants that are native to my location. I love them. They're hardy and with careful choosing I have a variety of birds, butterfiles, and bees visiting my garden. The only annuals I ever do are some purple fountain grass, marigolds, and sun coleus varieties in a couple of large pots.

Please share pictures of what you do with your neighbor's area. I'd like to see.
 

Nik

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Oh it is so beautiful! I always admire people who have green thumbs. It is ironic I can't keep a plant alive worth anything but I am terrific with animals and you would think that plants would be so much easier.
 

Smokeycat

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Nice. My garden has baked to death. The only thing still producing is the crab apple tree and it is ready a month early this year.
 

Bailey's Mom

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Well, I didn't think there would be much of a garden this year, it rained until I thought I'd float away. It was cold, damp, miserable...my patio flooded, and some of my perennials died...gave up the ghost... and ruined my plans. We had a week of great warm days in April and then May was a total wash out. I'm lucky anything is blooming.
 

glen

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That is beautiful, I think a small garden can be more beautiful than a large one. I wish mine was a lot smaller at times it's hard work but the boys wouldn't like it.
 

Bailey's Mom

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True, Bailey isn't a fan of the garden as I watch her like a hawk and tut-tut when she gets near my flowers. She has murdered the grass three years in a row, so I gave up. Jon is adding paving stones, but it's hard to get ones that match, so we have to scout around for ones that have been discarded when people expands their decks.

As for neighbour's gardens...(Boxergirl) I've put in two: One is largely perennials and the other is largely annuals, though, I'm going to add to hers. She is originally from the states and has some severe orthopaedic issues, so gardening is out of the question. These are small areas, three feet by 12...all we are allowed with front gardens in a condo development, but joy, we have enclosed backyards and mine is bolted shut...no entry except by my invitation.

Grrr. Tried to attach pics but they wouldn't open. So frustrating!
 

Nik

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Well I can say I am impressed with the gardens. My yard is nothing but dirt. The grass died and then the weeds took over and I have been battling the weeds and ivy for the past two years. So we have dirt. Lots and lots of dirt. We do have a blackberry bush and an orange tree which I haven't managed to kill. We also have a healthy avocado tree that produces unedible avocados and apple tree we recently brought back to life but it is struggling and not producing apples. How I can be so terrible with plants I just don't understand.

Flowers I kill. Grass I kill. We even had this beautiful alovera plant that I also managed to (can you guess?) kill. It looks like bushes and trees can survive my black thumb..... So far.
 

Bailey's Mom

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You are hysterical!

I'm trying to post one of the pictures again...fingers crossed.

Nope...too big. Grrr.