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Garden Zone: 6
Plants in my Garden: foxglove, lupine, columbine, irises, shasta daisies, gloriosa daisies, stokesia, dame's rocket, May Night salvia, tall phlox, Stella D'Oro day lilies, cat mint, baloon flower, bee balm, purple cone flower
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: Sitting on the deck enjoying how beautiful the gardenlooks.
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: At Work
Occupation: Editor
Plants in my Garden: foxglove, lupine, columbine, irises, shasta daisies, gloriosa daisies, stokesia, dame's rocket, May Night salvia, tall phlox, Stella D'Oro day lilies, cat mint, baloon flower, bee balm, purple cone flower
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: Sitting on the deck enjoying how beautiful the gardenlooks.
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: At Work
Occupation: Editor
HeavenlyBlue
Member Since: 4/13/2008
Last Seen: 134 days, 9 hours ago
About HeavenlyBlue
Hello Everyone, I just joined GG, and I’m looking forward to making new friends. This is my first time in a forum, but I’ve been reading some of your blogs, so I feel as though I know some of you already.
Two years ago, I moved into townhouse condos, and fortunately, we are allowed to have gardens. So, I’m coming up on my third season with a perennial garden that I started from scratch two years ago. What a lot of work, although my son was very helpful with some of the heavy duty stuff, like digging out the grass.
I’ve been a gardener all my life, going back to the days when I would help my grandmother in her Victory garden. I inherited her green thumb, I think, and my daughter inherited my mother’s black thumb, for sure.
In my previous home, the soil was very fertile, and I had a very large, what I guess you’d call, an English cottage garden. I left plants that self seeded themselves in drifts, and it was especially beautiful in the spring with many lupines, foxgloves, columbine, and irises all in bloom.
By comparison, the soil is very poor here, and I doubt that my garden will do as well—and it certainly won’t be as big at this point in my life, although my grandchildren like to “help.” I also have to figure out how to come up with some kind of windbreak. It’s like a wind tunnel behind the row of townhouses, and I have trouble keeping the tall plants upright. I’ll be looking for ideas!
I started by buying a dozen perennials the first year and filled in with annuals so the garden looked pretty good for a start-up effort. Last year I added more perennials, but also lost some over the winter (due, I think, to the poor soil, wind, and lack of snow cover last winter). This winter we’ve had plenty of snow, so I’m hoping for very few losses.
I see lots of little green things coming up, but it’s still to cold, raw, and wet to even start cleaning up. I’m anxious, though, and have been working on my lists of what needs to be moved and what I want to get this year. Let’s hope Sprint comes soon!
I have been keeping a photo record of the first two years, and if I can figure out Flickr, I’ll post them if anyone is interested.
Two years ago, I moved into townhouse condos, and fortunately, we are allowed to have gardens. So, I’m coming up on my third season with a perennial garden that I started from scratch two years ago. What a lot of work, although my son was very helpful with some of the heavy duty stuff, like digging out the grass.
I’ve been a gardener all my life, going back to the days when I would help my grandmother in her Victory garden. I inherited her green thumb, I think, and my daughter inherited my mother’s black thumb, for sure.
In my previous home, the soil was very fertile, and I had a very large, what I guess you’d call, an English cottage garden. I left plants that self seeded themselves in drifts, and it was especially beautiful in the spring with many lupines, foxgloves, columbine, and irises all in bloom.
By comparison, the soil is very poor here, and I doubt that my garden will do as well—and it certainly won’t be as big at this point in my life, although my grandchildren like to “help.” I also have to figure out how to come up with some kind of windbreak. It’s like a wind tunnel behind the row of townhouses, and I have trouble keeping the tall plants upright. I’ll be looking for ideas!
I started by buying a dozen perennials the first year and filled in with annuals so the garden looked pretty good for a start-up effort. Last year I added more perennials, but also lost some over the winter (due, I think, to the poor soil, wind, and lack of snow cover last winter). This winter we’ve had plenty of snow, so I’m hoping for very few losses.
I see lots of little green things coming up, but it’s still to cold, raw, and wet to even start cleaning up. I’m anxious, though, and have been working on my lists of what needs to be moved and what I want to get this year. Let’s hope Sprint comes soon!
I have been keeping a photo record of the first two years, and if I can figure out Flickr, I’ll post them if anyone is interested.
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