My husband and I live with my mom, so our garden is shared between my mom and me.
1 - My beautiful forsythia, which I bought as an 8-inch cutting from the Yarmouth Garden Society when we lived there. I dug it up and brought it to Cole Harbour with us. The bush is 8 years old.
2 - Mom's bleeding heart, tulips and heuchera in her front garden, with shasta daisies, liatris and yellow loosestrife just coming up as greenery.
3 - Red leaf Japanese barberry in the front rock garden, plus white alpine flowers, purple creeping phlox and tulips about to open.
4 - Mom's morning glories which she grew from seed, wrapped around the trunk of one of the maples in the front yard. That's the leafed-out forsythia in the background.
5 - Lavender and strawberries from my wildflower garden in the side yard.
6 - Hostas and astilbe in the woodland garden.
7 - English ivy beside Brad's and my entrance to our apartment.
8 - Lady's mantle on the slope beside my wildflower garden.
9 - A glossy dark euonymus evergreen shrub, a new rugosa rose from my sister's boyfriend, a wonderful hosta and purple clematis at the edge of Mom's front flower bed.
10 - Feverfew and ferns in Mom's back flower bed.
11 - Yellow loosestrife, plus a rose my sister gave to me. These are in a bed in the backyard which my sister's boyfriend dug up for us. So we call it Newt's Garden.
12 - Pink phlox in the side flower bed by our neighbors. I got these from my other bus buddy neighbor a few doors down, when she was splitting up her perrenials.
13 - Rosy sedum at the edge of the woodland garden.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Thursday Thirteen - 76 - 13 Highlights From My Garden This Season
Posted by Julia Phillips Smith at 10:48 PM
Labels: Alpine flowers, Astilbe, Bleeding Heart, Euonymus, Feverfew, Forsythia, gardening, Heuchera, Ivy, Japanese barberry, Lady's mantle, Lavender, Rose, Tulips
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Not playing Julia, but wanted to say that all these are so beautiful. You should be very proud. Have a great TT. :)
You have such a gorgeous garden! I am truly impressed. Such wonderful flowers!
Your garden is beautiful> Makes me miss living in a housee. I don't even have a fern...no green thumb. Wonderful photos. Thanks!
I like your artist/send Harper packing button. good on ya!
Here is my TT list:
http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/2008/10/william-conqueror-13-details-about-paul.html
I enjoyed that very much, Julia. I admire your bleeding heart plant very much. Mine didn't come back this year, and I missed it so. They are amazing little flowers.
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Very beautiful!
I wish I didn't kill things.
What a beautiful garden Julia! :)
Beautiful pictures. I now have a serious case of garden envy. :)
It looks like you have a lovely garden. My hubby is the gardener in our family.
Sooo gorgeous. And can I just say,...I love me some barberry!
Blessings,
~Toni~
Lovely! I have always loved bleeding hearts, too!!
Awesome...beautiful garden! Ummm gardens are not possible in Mumbai but I do have loads of house plants.
Lovely pictures!
Oh wowie kazowie, what BEAUTIFUL flowers! I love those pictures -- thanks for sharing! :)
Beautiful flowers. I wish I had your green thumb.
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