A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum A Few Photos

Took these photos of my garden this afternoon.


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Oh My!

Your yard is beautiful. You must be very proud of it.

Good job!

wow! that is beautiful! by the way, i sent you a pm...

Gosh your garden looks very busy down there in Tenny.

How nice and neat......Do you have any idea how many types of plnat there are?
YOu ought to be on HGTV.

Wow Alan! You have a beautiful yard!

Wow, Alan, that is one beautiful yard! Looks like you've really put some work into. Good job!!

Dodge- I have no idea how many plants I have...I suspect at least 100. My dream would be to be on The Gardener's Journal on HGTV. Actually, it would probably be more like a nightmare...the host would walk around asking "what's the name of this plant?" and I would be like,"uh, I don't know." I probably don't know the exact cultivar of at least half of the plants in my garden. I see plants I like and I buy them...I usually don't remember the names. I tried saving the tags, but I had so many I ended up throwing them all away. I should have written them all down. Oh well.

Ha ha

You sound normal......But your sure well maintained.. I see what they do on tv...They put the huge names up so they can read them off......It is fun guessing anyways..

Thanks

Nice rocks on cedar hill right now.

Willy must be up to something..

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Very nice looking gardens you have there Alan. So relaxing.

Beautiful and so peaceful!

Oh Alan your yard is absolutely Beautiful!!! !!!

ANd BTW!! Happy Birthday!!

Wow! What are the red spikey things featured in the first link?

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I am guessing .Snapdragons?????

OR Redhot POkers????????

Rocket Snapdragons.

I love the combination of snapdragons and foxglove. But how did you get them to stay that small. The ones that naturalized when I lived in Washington State would get huge.

In the third picture on the right hand side toward the back what is the pinkish-purple colored flower. It looks fantastic.

Great Frog in the fifth picture. Better watch out with that one. We have a few frog collectors around here lol.

Thanks for the pictures Alan and happy belated birthday. I love your garden.

Hey Alan.......

I guessed.

DO yours return yearly?????Mine do in zone 5..

Tk

In warmer climates the flowers grow much larger than in cooler climates.......

That is why Hawaii has such nice Lush tall greenery and Florida and Texas etc.

TK- that is a 'Foxy' foxglove seedling that just came up this year...it will get bigger next year. I have some in the back yard that are about 3-4 ft. tall. The one in the third photo is a peony...unsure of which one, though.

Dodge- my snapdragons usually come back for 2-3 years and then die. It depends on just how hot and humid the summer gets. I plant more in the fall or early spring.

I love the color of your peony. I planted two this year. One is a powder puff pink and one is a deep magenta. They are just starting to come out of the ground now because I just got them last week.

Thanks for the info on the foxglove. Do yours transplant themselves all over the garden too? That's what ours used to do. You never knew where they were going to show up from one year to the next?

I have another question of course lol. How to you maintain a garden like that. Are there pathways that I just don't see? How do you get in amoungst the plants to weed and such?

Another question......Do you use that landscape material under the mulch>

I am putting grass clippings in my strawberrys ..Is that good or bad?

b

My foxgloves do reseed...they come up in places where I never even had one nearby.

I used the landscape cloth under the larger trees where I was unable to dig into the soil because of the roots. I covered it with mulch and used containers for planting. In the larger beds I do have some pathways, not very wide so they are mostly hidden unless you really look. In the bed with the frog I am able to go around the back of the plantings and get access, too. I'm trying to find a few really big pots so I can plant some large shade tolerant shrubs to put in the back of that bed to take up the empty space. Also, I plan on building an ornamental fence-like structure to put on the back right side to hide the brush.

That sounds fantastic. Now just out of curiousity. About how many annuals vs perennials do you use in your garden. And is it a four season garden? And if so what are you using for the winter season? I am one curious little gardener aren't I? lol. Just ignore me if I'm being a pain. I'd just love to have a garden like yours someday.

Sounds wonderful...........It is a veryyyyyyyy nice hobby.

I'd say it's 80% perennial, 20% annual, with about 5% of those annuals reseeding. It is a 4 season garden, but unlike many gardens you may see I don't have beds divided up by season. Instead, they're all mixed together with several things blooming in each bed at any given time (except winter of course.) I have quite a few conifers and evergreens for winter interest, but I admit it isn't the best season for my garden. Also several garden sculptures and things.

Thanks.......
do you raise Helleborus? Tell me about it , if you do.
I just planted 3 ......

Very beautiful garden Alan! I love that you have a vast selection of flowers as well!

I do have several hellebores. I planted a few under a large Hackberry tree a few years ago, but then decided to cut the tree down and now they are getting too much sun. They reseed like crazy...I have dozens of them all around the mother plants.

How long do they bloom?

I just planted 3 .....GUess not till next year?

Are they the evergreen type of plant?

Yes, they are evergreen. Mine usually start blooming in early February and bloom for at least 2 months. I try to cut off the old blooms so they won't reseed so much.

Thanks Alan,

Now how tall do them become? And do you put them into part shade /////? I Have mine on the north side of the house.

They can handle part to full shade and dry soil. Mine get about 12-15" tall. Some people (me included) cut all of the foliage back before they flower so you can really see the blooms better. The foliage can get some winter damage anyway, and it grows back quickly.