We brought the hostas in the picture below from our home in Alabama and added those to our sitting garden. It's a good thing that I love big leaf hostas since we garden in so much shade.
Finally! Phil and I planted a garden area at the corner of Two Holt so now our side yard garden is finished. Well...we still have room for a few more plants, but the side garden is mostly complete. We brought the hostas in the picture below from our home in Alabama and added those to our sitting garden. It's a good thing that I love big leaf hostas since we garden in so much shade. In our new garden bed, we placed a boxwood, Mt. Airy fothergilla, Potomac Pride hostas and, in the pot, Emerald Mist brunnera. The new boxwood is the sixth boxwood in our side garden. Boxwoods flank our two sets of steps and the corners of our house. We still need to add the lattice underpinning. The garden continues around the corner of the house where we began the garden path in the little space between the house and retaining wall. Here are our before and after pictures, but we'll be adding more plants for sure! We're not sure yet if we'll attempt to move that large rock in the picture or somehow incorporate it into the garden design. Here's this new garden area from another angle... And I just HAD to have this planter we found at the local nursery. I want to paint it, but I have to decide on the paint color. Yellow? Blue? Orange? Purple? Hmmm...what would be your choice?
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Larry Elder
7/12/2014 03:20:56 am
That space would benefit from a bright color, so I'd go for yellow. Love your little side yard garden. Hostas are great plants...such a variety of leaf size and color. Is the big rock a native one, or is it one that was purchased and placed there? Since it is such a nice specimen, I think I'd move it to a location where it would be more visible, like the front or side yard.That sucker must weigh a couple hundred pounds, though. Good luck if you plan to move it.
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Sharon
7/13/2014 03:25:40 pm
The rock was there, Larry. Mrs. Cora Shaddick had her gas tanks sitting on it. Phil wrestled one almost that big out of the ground when we dug out the bed for the new boxwood, hostas, and fothergilla! Hostas are great plants...Joe, the contractor who did some work for us a couple of years ago, stomped all over my hostas. I begged him to stop. He'd just laugh and say, "Awww, Sharon, those er just ol' Carolina weeds. You cain't kill them thangs."
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Larry Elder
7/14/2014 12:44:58 am
Funny. Hostas do seem to grow like weeds over there in Highlands' cool, shady environment, though. They're all over town. Leave a Reply. |
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