I live in the heart of the city so it is sorrounded by tall buildings yet we manage to get plenty of sun.

This is some sort of creeper which came with the garden and it is HUGE it covers almost ten stories of that building. In the fall it turns deep red.

The fornt plant is I believe a camelia, and this spring I planted a wisteria to cover the pergola.

That is a ficus tree, it was intended to grow as a shrub but years of neglet turned it into this beautiful huge tree, no leaves visible cause it was just prunned.

The tall plant is a two year old lemon verbena, I am lucky enough that here it is able to survive the winter. It is quite a grower also. Under it there is some sort of rue, goldenrods, yarrows and a couple of roses.

And this is my kumquat bush, and the plant beneath I can remember the name right now.

Thank you all for the nice comments they are great, i really do think it is boston ivy from what ive researched on the net, thanks for the tip on what it was. As to the question if the pillars are free standing or if they have foundations on the ground, i really can´t say as this house has 70 yrs and they are an original feature that came with it, but i think they have some sort of foundation.

before i post pics from last summer i found some before pics while cleaning up my computer so here they go they are from the 2007 summer:

So that is the before, and here is the now. This´pictures were taken at the end of summer on late march i think, so here they go:

This is a view of the front of the garden, the wisteria has grown so much in a year its incredible. You can also see the ficus tree that had been prunned on my previous post.

This is the barren flowerbed seen in the before pic, now it has some small hydrangeas and an azalea bush, i'm still planning on adding something else, but not sure as to what.

Added grass on some areas as a test drive for the whole garden, happy to say its done AMAZINGLY

Moved some of the roses that were on the flower beds to big pots, as they were not doing so well, and in the containers they are doing great.

I really dont know what the plant on the linden flower bed is, but it is great, it has tiny deep pink flowers that form little redish yellow seed balls:

And here are some close-ups of some of the flowers i have now growing on some of the beds:

I'll post pics from this spring and summer. Tasks for this season include, some heavy prunning as everythig has grown some lush and wild, so maybe it wont look so great for a while. Finishing adding grass to the rest of the garden. Establishing an asparagus bed, and more, so much more flowers.

As always please leave your comments as they are great!

precious plant in the 6th & 7th photos from the bottom up a type of Gaura maybe? Its awesome. I love your

Geraniums. What's your secret to growing them? I can't. I think because it gets so humid here in south MS. I have

a pale/clear pink one that I bought in a mixed basket this spring that I put in a half whiskey barrel and just about

lost during the hottest part of the summer. I cut it back hard and it's looking better and getting new blooms since

it's cooled off...just in time to freeze and be lost. I may dig and pot it up and put it in the garage for

winter. Thanks for sharing, Leslie

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