Garden: Judy and Jerry's Arkansas Shade GardenThis is a shade garden in the heart of Hot Springs Village. We moved here a few years ago and have gradually planted the surrounding land. My favorite are the hydrangeas my daughter sent me. I would love to change my hydrangeas to a bluer shade - if anyone has advice on how to do this, that would be great.
Garden: Asticou Azalea GardenThe beauty of the Azalea Garden changes and evolves throughout the year. A flowering cherry tree heralds the start of the season in mid-May, followed by azaleas and rhododendrons in many hues in late May through June. July blooms include Japanese iris, smoke bush, rosebay rhododendron, and the fragrant sweet azalea. August is quiet and serene, accented by blooming water lilies, and in September and October the garden glows with the colors of fall.
azalea garden bridge in fall
Rhododendrons and azaleas are planted throughout the garden, and many are native to the mountainous regions of the world. The Pink Shell Azalea, Rhododendron vaseyi, is native to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and provides much of the garden’s structure. It grows alongside Rhododendron kiusianum from the mountains of Japan and Rhododendron canadense, Maine's own native azalea. (Source: GardenPreserve.org)
Garden: Kathy's GardenI have many plants in containers, due to poor soil and rampant gophers. But I also have other plants in the ground, including roses, fortnight lilies and fruit trees. I love drought-resistant plants like Pride of Madeira, flax and ceanothus.
Garden: Carol's GardenI like to plant whatever catches my eye. I have two perennial gardens featuring oriental poppies, lilies, hostas, astibles, columbines,daisies,blackeyed susans,purple cone flowers. Just to name a few of my favorites. One garden gets full sun all day. The second gets the morning sun only and shade from the house for the rest of the day. Due to the fact that I'm on the lake I have to plant species that can tolerate the wind.
Garden: Sandy's Piece of HeavenThis garden has been in the making since 1989 and has had to adapt to increasing shade. It is mostly a perennial garden that keeps changing all spring, summer and fall. After daffodils and tulips are done, each season is dominated by one or several showy perennials: peonies and penstimon in June, lilies and shasta daisies in July, dahlias and phlox in August, asters and chrysanthemums in September. Every season also has minor players like coral bells, astilbe, delphinim, foxglove, lady's mantle and many others. I look for a range of colors and textures My preference is for flowers that are suitable for cutting .
Garden: Lisa's West Coast Canadian GardenThis garden is on a city lot located on the West Coast of southern British Columbia in Coquitlam~ It is a small urban garden with perennials for sun and shade, native plants, vegetables and herbs, and a large deck garden with funky pots, a water garden in a half whiskey barrel, and potted shrubs and trees.
The garden is is located on a plateau several hundred feet above sea level, although the ocean is only a few miles away, so it receives torrential down pourings of rain in the winter, AND spring, AND fall. And it also freezes for at least some of the winter. Snow and prolonged cold spells have become common in the past few winters. In the summer, the climate is hot and mostly dry for one to two months per year, and the heat can come on very fast, with no transition time which is hard on the plants, and the gardeners. Other garden threats here include children's feet, soccer balls, and my husband's four wheel drive wheels.
Garden: TemenosFront, back, side and patio gardens, a fair amount of shade. Flowers (working toward mostly perennials in the beds), some herbs and a vegetable or two.
Garden: Gardens of PeaceMostly Perennials and Ornamental grasses/lilies/and bulbs in the spring - few annuals if time permits. Gardens in front and backyard and the neighbour always have good comments.
Garden: HOSTA HAVENVarious beds of HOSTAS 350+ varieties, mixed with Azaleas, lilies, daylilies, heucheras, with many exotic trees;magnolia, tulip, Satomi dogwood, Japanese bloodgood maple, harlequin maple.
Garden: Sheila's GardenWas a lovely Japanese garden when we bought the house, but I've planted bulbs and a Rowan tee and a contorted willow, as well as lilies and roses and all sorts of non-Japanese flowers, so it doesn't look quite the same as it used to!
Garden: Collecters DreamOur gardens range from a rock garden border with English style plants in the front yard. To a full shade bed in the side yard. In the back we have our water garden with fish pond and along the back drive we started a perrienial butterfly garden. I love to plant perrienials and watch them grow each year. I love variety and have everything from old fashioned larkspur to modern asiatic lilies. I also love wildflowers and have tried my hand at a few. Last year we added snakeroot and it was beautiful blooming in June fast spreader also. I love creating places of interest and beauty. Always a work in progress our gardens are a fun way to teach our two kids.
Garden: MyGreenHavnFinally getting summer here thank goodness as we are busy combining and need the hot dry weather, the garden is staring to wain and I have to water frequently to keep it fresh, starting to collect seeds and moving some lilies. I have control my urge to lay out yet another bed.
Garden: Franks GardensI enjoy growing many types of perennials such as lilies, roses and cut flowers and enjoy growing vegetables and fruits in our edible garden patch.
Garden: Hostageek's Hosta HavenI have 4 mature maple trees in my suburban garden, so I have lots of shade plants, especially hosta. I also love lilies and coneflowers so I try to find the rare sunny location in my garden for them.
Garden: Parc de BagatelleIn 1905 Bagatelle was sold to the City of Paris.
Just prior to its redevelopment, Bagatelle was a strange sight. A landscape where rivers, paths and beds of flowers, created in the XIXth century, softened the surprise effects of the pre-romantic gardens of the Count d'Artois without detracting from its spirit.
From 1905, the J.-C.-N. Forestier, the Commissioner of the Jardins de Paris, succeeded in retaining the garden's style whilst at the same time redeveloping it.
In order to make the public more aware of the growing popularity of horticulture, J.-C.-N. Forestier created temporary and permanent collections of horticultural plants.
He built the famous rose gardens, the iris garden and the presenters, designed a pond to improve the presentation of aquatic plants and water lilies which were so dear to the painter Claude Monet. In 1907 he organised the first international competition for new roses.
Exhibitions, concerts and various cultural events are periodically held in the castle and the magnificent Bagatelle gardens. (Source: http://www.v1.paris.fr/EN/Visiting/gardens/parc_bagatelle.asp )
Garden: Liz's gardenLots of lawn and trees, mostly perennials -- I love peonies, delphiniums and day lilies. We also have a smallish vegetable garden.
Garden: Julie's GardenI should start by saying that everything you see is in its first year of a new location.
So far, I have three gardens. One is a mixture of phlox, echinacea, rudbeckia, and autumn joy. This one is at the front of the house, and between all the plants, has wood chips put down over landscaping fabric. Because I moved, I managed to get everything moved over, but not much has been done to it yet. The plan is to put in more sedum for sure, but beyond that, I'm a little unsure what to do.
My second garden is all different types of hostas, with a bit of lilies mixed in and a bit of echinacea. This one is along the side of the garage. It's not the sunniest of areas, which is why i went with my hostas. I have over 12 varities of hostas. I'd like to sometime in the future put down landscaping fabric and wood chips. I'd also like to find a way to mix more color in.
My third garden has a native grass, sweetgrass, some exotic echinacea, dahlea, hydrangea. This is the smallest, but I have the biggest plans for this space. The goal is for this area to be my own little oasis. I plan again on the wood chips, but I have beautiful blue slate that I want to lay down. This particular project is planned for next summer!
I moved back in June, so I transplanted all of my plants, so my plants don't wow me this year (and a lot of my echinacea were seedlings that came up), so I'm hoping next year with no shock of being moved, things will look much lusher, filled in, and more plentifu
Garden: our haven..st.polycarpe quebecmoving from b.c.(5 years ago) i had to learn and still learning about q.c. gardening!!!
we started this garden from NOTHING.our first winter we walked over the new seadlings wich were everywhere in the house...and then it was just hard work to make a flat farm surrounded by organic fields into a cosy backyard...stillin the process..but loving it.
mimi
Garden: A Bit Of Paradise in The Northern RegionI have over an acre of rock gardens.100s and 100s of rocks. It has taken me over 10 years to have a mature garden of giant hosta (300) and lilies of all varieties.(150)
Other than slugs, I really am lucky,(touch wood) that deer and other pesky things havent given me too much problem..
Garden: Our Little Piece of HeavenA range of full shade to full sun. Some raised flower beds, displaying a mixture of shrubs, tree, perennials and annuals. A bridge and dry river bed adds interest to the front yard, and a pond enhances the back yard.
Garden: Beach Rose House GardenI started a perrennial garden on our 3 1/2 acre beach front property 3 years ago: It currently has day lilies, butterfly bush, lots of rose bushes (mostly hardy and climbing), hydrangea, lilac bushes, irises, black eyed susans, clematis, Beebom, hostas, lupins, an amazingly pretty lettuce garden my husband made etc...Already on the property were several blackberry bushes, several apple trees, several cherry trees, several rose bushes many years mature, lilac bushes. Arch nemesis: Asian or Japanese knotwood I have been battling in side garden for 4 years and just tackled a 1/2 acre pf it in the lower field closer to the beach.
Garden: Charmaine & David's Secret Garden28 years of planning, refining, moving, adding - you know! A work in progress! We have fountains, several well established lovely maples, a couple of impressive Trumpet vine trees (yes! trees!), Day lilies, Roses, Herbs, Passion flowers, Hibiscus, Hosta, Ferns, Clematis, Honeysuckle ....... you get the idea! If we love it we try to grow it.
Garden: Backyard perenial and vegetable gardenI have created a raised vegetable garden in order to allow me to work from my wheelchair. I have planted and cultivated radishes, beats, yellow-green-purple beans, peas, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, salads, onions, strawberries and rhubarb.
For a 1st year garden attempt it has been great... the kids eat right off the plant as they run by.
My wife has wonderful perennial gardens flanking the yard; irises, lilies, roses, lilacs and much much more.
Garden: Monnie's GardenSuburban garden. I love flowers - grow as many type of lilies as I can lay my hands on. Have small veggie area about 16' x 8'and this year grew broccoli, cauliflowers, french beans, cucumbers, celery potatoes,peppers and chilli peppers. We grow apples - (wonderful crop - we are eating them at the moment) and soft fruits raspberries, red and black currants.I have a grass garden and a lavender bed. Wouldn't be the most well organised garden in the world but I Love it. I will try anything.
Garden: Pamela's gardenMy garden is in Days Bay, Eastbourne. In the front it is mostly a cottage style garden with roses and lawn. Amongst my roses are fox gloves, granny bonnets, pentstemons and much more. In the back I have rhododendrons and camelias underplanted with hostas, and renga lilies.A small herb and vegetable garden features in the back also. The total size of our land is 1/4 acre.
Garden: Rocky TopI have a 3 acre yard/garden with large trees, flowers, a spot I am working on for my veggie/fruit garden. I am growing rose of sharon, forsythia, lilacs, roses, hostas, lilies, pink flowering almond, wildflowers, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, etc... I have blackberries, black raspberries (both wild), strawberries, blueberrry bushes, Jerusalem artichokes, sedums, wild purple phlox, tame phlox, grapes, pears, peaches, cherries, and many others. The rest of my place is mostly wooded.
Garden: Casa NueveMy garden begins with a traditional style hacienda entry full of potted and hanging ferns, succulents, miniature palms and inpatients to add color. Rounding the corner is a park like green with potted succlents under the windows and hanging from the 5 mt. coco palm. We have 12 meter x 1.5 meter fish pond with three waterfalls with lotus and water hayacinth as well as fairy lilies and 30+ fish. Next is my flower and vegetable garden grown from seed and treated organically.
The backyard pool has natural rock with ornamental grasses, tiger liles, succulents and wild daisy and 5 majestic palms. More grassy area leads to an oversized fireplace with plumeria, vine roses and various shade plants.
On our rooftop we have a fire pit with cactus garden. We've tried to create a space for everyone and to take advantage of the entire area....it's LOVELY.
Garden: DoordriftRiver valley, lots of trees, shade, and high groundwater table for most of the year. Watering from a well point in summer but pumping away the high groundwater most of the year. Oaks, hawthorne, white stinkwood, swamp cyprus, ginko biloba, olives, fruit, swamp cyprus, catalpa, coral tree, lots of clivia, plectranthus, ageratum, azalea, ferns, oleander, hibiscus, varieties of bromeliad, water irises, duvenoia, a nice medinella, young psychotria and yellowwoods, crinum lilies and various day lilies and madonna lilies, strelitzia.big mixture. Building an 1830s style veranda. On Doordrift Road, Cape Town. Mediterranean climate, heavy rain at times in winter, mild temperature. My parents began this 55 years ago. Most of the trees are from then or later, but the oaks are older. Two oaks fell over the years, from too much water at their roots, but the pumping system has now contained that problem.
Garden: flowers gardenAt my house I have front, side and back garden containing many evergreens, climbing roses, rhododendrons, hyendreas. heathers, thistles, bulbs of fragrant lilies, tulips and at the back garden some hanging flowers...
Garden: Radford StreetI changed a parking area to a raised bed for perrenials and a tree, I have numerous lilies, shrubs, a huge spruce tree w hostas and bleeding heart under it. Also, planted a swedish aspen. I also plant tomatoes and cukes I now have 4 beds in back yard might add another one
Garden: weeds2rosesEstablished yard that has become mostly shady except for small front yard. Pond, fruit trees, and lilies.
Garden: The Abkhazi GardenAbkhazi Garden is a dynamic work of art within a discipline imposed by the site. A unity of execution is evident in the layout of buildings, paths and plant material. Forms and materials were selected to express one overruling idea, the rhythm of the natural landscape. The house, summerhouse and garden shed, modest in size and construction, complement this landscape. The intimate paths show a human scale appropriate for the private world the Abkhazis wanted to create for themselves.
Some rhododendrons are over 100 years old, their gnarled trunks as attractive as their flowers. Trained mature conifers cascade down the rock faces, and carefully pruned azaleas provide living sculptures. Each season, naturalized bulbs carpet the garden in sheets of colour. Choice alpine plants are sited carefully in natural rock crevices. (Source: The Land Conservancy)
Garden: Mom's GardenI Love to grow any kind of flower if it will survive in my yard. Very windy, and full sun to part shade, mixed soil conditions. Started a compost this year,( have tried before but not successful) The garden is always changing , mostly because I cannot make up my mind, that is always a good thing for my friends whom I give my extra plants to. I planted vegetables this year, and am loving the great taste of home grown veggies. yum.
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We are Arkansas transplants from California by way of Montana. We love our community and enjoy spending time in the garden.
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I've been a master gardener for 10 years. I work with youngsters and try to pass on the joys of growing things. I also grow and maintain a butterfly/hummingbird garden at a local library. My own garden is a small urban plot in an old neighborhood. It is surrounded by large old trees so my gardens are mostly shade and partial shade, though I do have spots that get 2-3 hours of sun.
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Sandy lives in White Bear Lake, MN and shares her gardening with her husband, Jim. Jim has a vegertable gard that produces good things to eat from May through September. Since we freeze a lot, we really enjoy his garden's fruits all year round. Here neighbors check out the peonies.
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This is our fourth year here, and I am still trying out various plants in various sites, both perennials and annuals, to see what likes being in which garden, all of which get varying degrees of shade. Herbs are also a favourite, and I've begun to grow some tomatoes and hot peppers. A "temenos" is a parcel of land reserved as a sacred retreat, and this is my experience of my gardens, inclusive of hard work, meditation, joy and relaxation. Montreal's summers are short; our gardening months are intensive and celebratory!
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My garden is currently in transition from tons of vines to flower beds. Be patient.
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I've been gardening for 10 years and have been enjoying it ever since! I'm currently in University studying Biochemistry.
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When I began the hillside garden in 1998, I placed a small garden shed on the highest spot on the hillside. Then began the dedicated process of tiering the groundsite, and building on my vision, first shrub's were raspberries, first tree...apple...then came the peony's and lilies, and from that I began to build. Hillside faces south, so there is sun, somedays very hot sun, all day long...three shade areas have been created and four levels. A spectacular view! With farm fields, oilfield sites, acreages and the city in the distance. There is no electricity, my water source for the most part was held in large tanks, accessed by 300 feet of garden hose. The water warmed was delivered to the base of the plant. My second source is Mother Nature, the best kind! I love designing the hillside, and taking photo's and sharing with my gardening friends! another passtime is writing poetry about my garden. I entertain many friends and family at the garden site as well as strangers that stop by just to enjoy. I have 11 different berries, and enjoy picking and making jellies as gifts. I planted a vegetable garden for 36 years, now just enjoy the trees, shrubs, and flowers for the bees, birds, and butterflys.
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My partner and I bought this house 7 years ago. There was no garden to speak of and the home was a dull grey and white. We love puttering around the house and yard to see what happens.
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The 2009 Summer Photo Contest
4 categories:
1. Lilies & daylilies
2. Water in the garden (dewdrops, frost, rain, pond, icicles, etc...)
3. The Colour Orange in the garden (any garden)
4. Photos taken in the Beausejour Daylily Gardens
anyone living in the province of Manitoba may enter this contest. We will accept mailed in photographs and also digital JPEG entries (800 by 600 JPG size). Maximum of one entry per category, and you can enter all 4 categories if you like. The cost to enter the contest is $2. Photographs will not be returned unless an envelope of adequate size with sufficient postage is included.
Entries can be mailed to:
Photo Contest
Box 20 Group 112 RR 1
Beausejour, MB
R0E0C0
or emailed to:
Handmade.4.u@hotmail.com
This contest runs from July 1st to September 1st 2009. Please include your name, address, and phone number with your submission. Photographs will be judged based on composition, technical quality (lighting and focus), creativity and overall appeal. Photographs submitted may be used for display purposes. Prizes will be awarded to the top photo in each category, and the winning photos will be featured in the local newspapers.
If you have any questions, you can email Melanie at the address above, or call
266-1322.
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I love my rock gardens,,I have over one acre...hosta, lilies, bee balm , coneflowers,English Ivy,,oh my gosh,,hundreds of flowers,oh dont forget sedum..Im just a gardening freak....Hoping to find brugs growers...
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I love to garden - my neighbour once asked my husband "What is your wife doing out in the yard digging like a Badger?" - well that is me - always out in my yard working away at something - it is my happy place to go out and play in the dirt -
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We have been gardening for over 40 years, but just really became addicted to hostas thirteen years ago. We have also taken over my parents day lilies after their passing. They hybridized and introduced several of their day lilies. Actually we have never seen a flower we did not like, and have many of different perennials. Our largest displays are the hosta and day lilies. We really love for people to tour and enjoy our gardens and have had busloads of gardeners tour them. We need advance notice, as we are retired and like to go plant shopping, so we are not always home.
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What harm can come from a Sunday drive in the country Bruce asked...8 weeks later we were selling our postage stamp property and moving to our dream home on a acerage in the country. We both immediately knew that this was our home when we viewed it. Vacant for over a year it was over grown with no curb appeal. Give me 3 years and it will be transformed into the garden of our dreams!! This will our 3rd yard make-over during our 25 year marriage.
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Hi, I'm Maree Clarkson and my garden is situated in Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa. We get quite a bit of severe frost here and last year I lost my 18-year old, 2,5m high Pachypodium - sad day. I also lost an Umbrella Thorn (Acacia tortilis during his third season, and have decided that, what doesn't make it, doesn't get replanted!
I started my current garden totally from scratch out of raw veld about 5 years ago, and my Karees (Rhus viminalis and Black Karee), Acacias and Celtises are now reaching well over 6m high. The rest of the garden consists of Cape Reed grass, Tiger grass, Red hot pokers (Kniphofia), Aloe ferox, Tree fuchsia (Haleria lucida) and various other indigenous grasses.
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I was a reluctant gardener until about four years ago, when I decided to "re-do" the existing garden, which was wildly overgrown. I ripped out most of the bushes and started landscaping with a water feature, pathway, edging, splitting existing plants and replanting, created sitting space and generally cleaning up. It has been a work in progress ever since, with making new beds, building a better entertainment area, outdoor barbecue area and so on. It was fun.
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British ex-pat living in Hungary. We travel a lot so the garden has to fend for itself at times. Watering is a big task in the summer when we can have prolonged periods of drought. We also have long freezing spells when the garden sleeps and we don't venture into it. A lot of plants do better in the shady spots because the heat can be extreme.
Garden Photo:The June garden is dominated by hot pinks and reds. dianthus and early red lilies compete with the peonies for attention. Red beard penstimon, perennial salvia, add contrast. The under garden is speckled with forget-me-nots.
Garden Photo:Stunning black and white Oriental Poppies in the bed in front of the house. I excitedly planted the purple variety, Patty's Plum, on either side of this one, but they don't compare in exuberance, at all. I plan to move them to the western bed to be tucked in next to some day lilies to hide the dying foliage, and receive more shade. Hopefully that will enhance the purple in the one remaining Patty's Plum. The purple colour in full sun has been a disappointing shade of puce. (One plant-loving neighbour even suggested she would refuse to have it in her garden. That's pretty bad!)
Garden Photo:Part of the backyard - showing day lilies and naturalized part of the lawn.
Garden Photo:Here's Lilioceris lilii, over which my lilies have triumphed, albeit with somewhat lacey leaves!
Garden Photo:Back deck also has a perennial/shrub garden coming off of it. Deutzia shrub, potentilla, spirea, and at least 20 oriental lilies in it.
Garden Photo:I got all my fancy dayliles from Canyon Ridge Day Lily Nursery in Kelowna, BC. You should google their website, they have lovely day lilies and they show the zones that each can be grown in, which I find really useful.
Garden Photo:Me planting exotic Day lilies in a new bed this August.
Garden Photo:Max chosing some day lilies to make a watercolor painting of.
Garden Photo:Dahlias and stargazer lilies. Just open the living room window and the aroma wafts into the house. Very nice.
Garden Photo:Day lilies on the left, phitonia with foliage that starts out a beautiful shade of red in the background, with a tree peony to the right of it and the Moonfire dahlia in the foreground.
Garden Photo:Some lilies, my grapevine, pampas grass growing around the jungle gym... I keep my birdfeeders and a bluebird house on it.
Garden Photo:My sons built this rock wall along the road for me. I have irises, lilies, sedums and violets growing in here.
Garden Photo:my elephant ears and canna lilies. my cannas didnt bloom this summer, and the friend who gave them to me thought perhaps they didnt get enough sun? guess I will put them in a different spot next year.
Garden Photo:a large shrubbery/bog garden i have lots of candelabra primula seedlings in here as well as arum lilies himilayan cowslips and a gunnera hopefully should be good this comming year
Garden Photo:This looks like the other spider lilies, but it is the native crinum. It gets large seed pods and is easy to propagate. Sometimes gets caterpillars which can eat it in a few days.It grows much bigger than other spider lily (hymenocallis)
Garden Photo:There are toad lilies, bluebells, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and trilliums under here somewhere.
Garden Photo:These are called Arum Lilies where I come from (South Africa), found in the wild in abundance with a creamy white flower. I think they're known as Calla Lilies here.
