Garden Timeline 2013

In 2013, we did a couple of new garden projects, and watched the growth of others:

• I finally got the gazebo that I had long wished for
• I re-did the North Border

Gazebo

My new gazebo arrives! This was such an exciting day.

My long-suffering husband and I painted the gazebo white, to match our other outbuildings, with a light blue ceiling (and grey floor, not yet done in this photo).

We had the gazebo placed in just the right spot, at the far south end of our property. You can see that the 'Sweetness' dianthus that I started from seed and planted in the Pond Garden beds have grown into mature size and were ready to bloom.

Other Areas

Tired of looking all year at roses that only bloomed sporadically, I moved the roses to another bed and re-designed the North Border into a more traditional mixed border, nice to look at from my kitchen window.

We continued our improvement of the large vegetable garden, seen at right. The new fox-proof chicken pen is at the far end of the garden.

The pond and surrounding garden beds now look finished. A Tulip display is followed by Dianthus and roses.

Now that we had a large Kitchen Garden, we didn't need to grow vegetables in the original bed next to the Peony Border (the peonies were here when we bought the property, and could have been planted long ago--we can't guess). I moved my roses from the North Border to this bed.

The roses inside my fence had grown large enough to bloom well by 2013.

A planted climbing 'Super Dorothy' roses on each porch pillar,
and this one was looking rather fabulous by 2013.

The Rainbow Border was beginning to fill in, still in an orderly way.

By 2013, we had planted a Hick's yew tree on the north side of the garage among the hostas. We also added a window box for impatiens and a small trellis on which a clematis was planted. Daylililes and surprise lilies were planted on the west side of the garage.

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