Three Seasons
June 15th, 2007One of my favorite aspects of a garden blog is being able to see the difference in my garden from season to season.
I haven’t posted about my garden since last fall, and I have three seasons worth of pictures to share. I’m absolutely amazed by the changes in my garden, especially in my front flower bed.
I’ve tried all kinds of plants in my front flower bed. This is the bed where I typically plant annuals because it’s small and easy to maintain. Last year, it looked fabulous in the spring. It was full of snapdragons, pansies, violas, nasturtium, calendula, and dianthus. See my previous posts for pictures.
This fall, I decided to hold off on the annuals and to plant hardy perennials instead. Why? Mostly because of lack of time. My full-time job keeps me busy enough. Another reason was to make sure that by the summer, I only had Texas-tough plants in the bed (to avoid the disaster that happened last summer.)
Also, I wanted to spend most of my gardening time on planting trees in front of my house. Tree planting can take a full weekend, by the way. I’ll post more on that experience later. For now, here’s what my front flower bed looked like during Fall 2006 (around October):
The only plants that made it through the summer
were the purple heart (center), the katie ruellias (around the edge), the dianthus (lower left), and the daylily (center–under purple hearts.)
I planted a few Turk’s caps in October, Read the rest of this entry »
