Here is the before gardenThis is my side garden. It falls on the side of the house that we use for an entrance. I started cleaning it up last Spring so this is the second season that I've had to work on it. It's REALLY coming together this year. I have lavender, hollyhocks, hosta, butterfly weed, delphiniums (purple and pink..pink isnt blooming yet), wormwood, lambs ear, black-eyed susans, bleeding hearts, salvia, pink scabiosa and sage. In the brick box behind the garden I have gladiolas.
The purple delphinium is the highlight of this garden, as far as I'm concerned. I'm in love with the color.
The other garden that I have here I am really just starting. We've had a fence filled with iris, hosta, and daylillies for years. Its overgrown and barely blooming because its so packed. I decided to stretch out the hostas, iris, and daylillies down the property line (which isn't shown). However, I got distracted and decided that this would make a great place for a cutting garden.
This is a photo of the fence line before I touched it. This is very much still a work in progress. I spend most of the afternoon with the tiller and a rake trying to clean out all of the sod. This weekend I"ll be digging up all of the iris, hosta, and daylillies and scattering them around the property. Iris anyone?
That IS a giant overgrown rose bush on the very end of the fence row. A sapling was growing right out of the middle of it, pushing the roses down. I clipped out the sapling and tied the bush back for the moment. I'm going to have to cut it back dramatically... but I opted to wait until 1)I've read up on pruning roses and 2) the blooms are finished. The shrub in the front gets white blossoms on it... but I'm not sure what it is. Def. not lilac. I have that about 10 feet further down the fence.



