This first is a hoot and I didn't even remember taking it. The photograph was taken on January 24th. You can make out the lump in the middle of the photograph which is the large urn. The dried stuff to the left is the Matrona Sedum. It will be back to this all too soon. I guess I won't complain anymore about the heat this summer.

This next one is from April 6. Still lots of spring cleanup left to do here but things are beginning to green up and there are a few crocus blooming.

What a difference a few weeks make in the spring! This next photograph is from April 28th. I've finally planted some spring flowers in the urn and the grape hyacinth and daffodils are blooming. Everything is greening up and coming to life.

I couldn't believe I didn't have any photos from this angle from May but this next pic is from June 9th. Incredible! I forget how fast things grow in the springtime. The large rock that shows up in the earlier photos is completely covered up with the daylily and hakone grass foliage. The 'May Night' Salvia in the foreground was particularly gorgeous this year.

July 2 - The 'Stella d'Oro' is beautiful behind the birdbath and things are just bursting with color! Look how much the sambucus has grown behind that urn.

July 16th and the garden is really popping. The daylilies, lychnis, and coreopsis are blooming away. You can just see a bit of the 'May Night' in the lower left corner.

August 18th, that rudbeckia behind the BB is really making a statement! 'Stella d'Oro' is getting ready to do its rebloom. I've never gotten constant bloom from it as advertised but it does rebloom pretty well for me in this garden. The color goes well with that rudbeckia this time of the year. The Urn has filled in so much you can hardly see the BB anymore and I really love when that variegated Ipomoea fills in. I plant it there because the color of the vine echoes the Adjuga 'Burgundy Glow'. The aster in the foreground is getting ready to do its thing and the May Night still has a few flowers left in it. I love that plant! If you deadhead it regularly it blooms for a very long time. This year instead of just deadheading it I cut this one back almost to the ground after the first flush of flowers and it came back better than the ones I just deadheaded. I'll do the more severe pruning on this plant from now on.

So that's it so far and I'm thinking I'll take a few more pics as the garden winds down for the season. I still have anemones and re-blooming iris to come and the Matrona behind the urn is just beginning to open its fall show.

Deanne

I never tried cutting May Night back, but it has to be easier than deadheading. I know that cutting back works great on Geranium 'Brookside' or 'Rozanne' (we had both, and I can't rememember which needed cutting back). Have you ever tried cutting back daylilies when the foliage gets ratty?

The variegated short grass at the bottom of most of the photos-is that Bulb Oat Grass (Arrhenatherum bulbosum 'Variegatum'-or something like that-I have my trusty notepad out)? I bought it this year, but in my research after the fact, I read that it might go dormant at the end of the season. My 3 are browning out slightly right now-has this happened to you?

Good info about the May Night Salvia. My Salvia 'Blue Queen' and tall S. haematodes 'Indigo' haven't rebloomed, but 'Blue Hill' has after deadheading. 'Caradonna' rebloomed just a tiny bit after deadheading, but not much. I don't have 'May Night'. The jury is still out.

Teresa

Monique, that Bulbous Oat Grass does get a bit brown and 'tatty' looking this time of year so I just chop it right down and it starts growing new leaves fairly soon and looks fresh again in a few weeks. I love the look of it the rest of the season and feel it is worth it because it is a non-invasive well behaved grass. I think the BG Ajuga is worth replanting in that spot to do that combo. If mine reverts I'll dig it out and replace it. I thought you and Les would like that combination! LOL

T, glad you found this interesting. I'll try to keep it updated as time goes by.

Deanne

Michelle

Yeona

Thanks, I used to have a 'map' of that garden but I've changed quite a few things since I did it. I should get it out and update it though. When I do I'll post it with the plants list.
Deanne

October 16, 2005

I'll get back to this later and put up some photos that show the border from a different angle.
Deanne

David, thanks very much for dropping in. I've been 'sculpting' this border for a while now and with inspiration from people like yourself, Sue, Monique and on and on I've continued to extend the visual interest throughout the seasons. Yes that is 'Sutherland Gold' I've not done anything to it but it had some severe winter kill last year and this is what came up this season. I'll see what next year brings.

Cindy, Marian, Putzer, many thanks for your feedback.

I'm hoping there is a bit of new snowfall for the December photo for this year.

Deanne

I did remove several Quincho Purple elderberries here this past summer because they simply took too long to return to flowering and fruiting. I replaced them with hardier shrubs.

Looking forward to the "winter interest" photo next month!

VG I'm still working on the map and plants list. I was hoping to get that finished a while ago but it unfortunately still isn't done. I'll post both the map and plants list here when it is completed.

Deanne

Eden

Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

gld

gld, yes that was me a couple years ago with the map and list. The garden has evolved nicely in the last few years and continues to please.

You are all so kind you've inspired me to get this 2005 garden documented.

What was a better thing to do on this snowy day than finally get this map redone? So I finished updating this map and getting the plants list done.

1. Buddleia ‘Pink Delight’
2. Perovskia atriplicifolia
3. Hemerocallis ‘Pastel Classic’
4. Lilium ‘Regale’
5. Aconitum napellus
6. Platycodon grandiflora
7. Echinacea ‘White Swan’
8. Anemone tormentosa ‘Robustissima’
9. Heliopsis ‘Loraine Sunshine’
10. Salvia ‘May Night’
11. Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
12. Platycodon grandiflorus 'Mariesii'
13. Coreopsis verticillita ‘Moonbeam’
14. Phlox paniculata ‘David’
15. Hosta ‘Patriot’
16. Aster Novi-Belgii Patricia Ballard
17. Iris germanica ‘Immortality’
17a. Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum 'Variegatum'
18. Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow'
18a. Vinca minor
19. Lupinus ‘The Govenor’
20. Sedum ‘Matrona’
21. Hemerocallis ‘Preppy Pink’
22. Mix of Sedum kamchaticum and Phlox subulata
23. Sambucus racemosa‘Sutherland Gold’
24. Hemerocallis ‘Jolyene Nichole’
24a. Salvia nemorosa ‘East Friesland’
24b. Stachys byzantina
25. Hosta ‘Golden Tiara’
26. Hemerocallis 'Siloam Amazing Grace'
27. Hemerocallis ‘Appalachian Sunset’
28. Hemerocallis ‘Stella d’Oro’
28a. Hakonechloa macra 'Albo Striata'
29. Geranium sanguineum ‘New Hampshire Purple’
30. Sedum kamchaticum
31. Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’
31a. Lilium ‘Aphrodite’
31b. Picea orientalis ‘Bergman’s Gem’
32. Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’
33. Calluna vulgaris
34. Juniperus horizontalis ‘Wiltonii’
35. Chamaecyparis pisifera
36. Stachys byzantina 'Helen von Stein'

Here is an aerial view of this border June 18, 2005

Marian

Thank you!

T.

Thanks again for being so generous with your information and sharing the wonder of your gardens with us.
-Cindy

gld

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T.

Eden

This is especially thrilling from my point of view. I garden in Florida, and never get to see the drastic changes a garden goes through. Nothing really dies back (unless the heat and humidity kills it), and nothing really blooms with that exuberance because things have all year to do their thing. There's no pressure to hurry up and set seed before the winter comes. I think northern gardens are much prettier because of that.

Thanks for sharing your garden!

pm2

Deanne

Kathy in Napa

-Cindy