Just off the top of my head here's the other places I'd love to see. JGH, Renaldo, Chris's nursery, Thy's & Ken. There's a bunch more but I have brain freeze at the moment.
So I'll start the tour & "show" you my garden.
My whole property is kinda small, maybe 50' wide x 100' long.
First we'll start in the front yard. Here's about the only grass you'll see, the small strip between the city sidewalk & the street. Who needs grass?
Oh by the way, I live on the prettiest street in town.
There's a grass meridian with crab apple & other trees in the middle of our street. The meridian goes for about 5 blocks & it is so pretty in spring when the crabtrees are in bloom. Lots of people have pretty flowering trees & lots of flowers in the front yards so it's really nice. Most of the houses are huge, gorgeous ones with cool architecture.
At Christmas almost everyone puts out luminaries on the Sunday before Christmas and my neighbor down the street dresses up as Santa & passes out candy to cars that line up to see Santa. Sometimes people dress up as victorian age carrolers or snowmen & walk up & down the street singing & visiting. It's a really nice neighborhood. (And I'm known as the crazy plant lady!)
My front yard is filled with 11 beds of mostly hostas. One bed is just coral bells. One bed is over run by gooseneck loosestrife & lily of the valley which I have to clean out this year! The loosestrife is starting to spread past that bed! Yikes! But it sure looks cool when it's blooming.
I have these huge hostas in front: Rascal, Sum & Substance, Plantaginea, Sagae, Elegans, Squash Casserole, Lady Isobell Barnett, Silver Crown, Frances Williams, Vim & Vigor, Blue Blazes, Montana Aureomarginata, Abiqua Drinking Gourd & KOMODO Dragon to name a few of the biggest.
Some smaller ones I really enjoy: June, Geisha, Spritzer, Winfield Blues,Permanent Wave, Elvis Lives, Remember Me, Marachino Cherries, Paul's Glory, Metallica, Reptillian, Blue Dimples, Vanilla Cream, Wolverine, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Mistress Mabel, Winter Lightning, Neat Splash, Spilt Milk, Strip Tease, Inniswood and a baby I grew that I thought was a baby coneflower.
I have a flagstone curving sidewalk I built all by myself in front where I set my pots of miniature hostas. Some of my fave minis are Pandoras Box, Quill, Blue Mouse Ears & Kabitan. Gosh, I have probably 20 but can't think of one more name.
The 100' tulip tree has a raised bed around it and one of the hosta beds is raised and surrounded by big rocks.
I have pots & pots, probably 40 or more of annuals on the front steps and curving around in front of the bed off to the right of the steps. To the left is going to be another flagstone sidewalk going to the neighbor's yard. It's been in construction for 3 years now, think I'll ever get it done????
On the porch we have a swing & a bunch of hanging baskets.Along the east side of the house is a raised bed that has only red & yellow flowers and
not one hosta! How can that be??? The driveway takes up the rest of the side yard and is usually filled with pots for my plant sales.The other side yard is my black & white garden. About a third of that side is filled with only black & white flowers. There's a white butterfly bush, b&w iris & hollyhocks, white lilies, shasta daisy, black mondo grass, Chocolate Joe Pye Weed, dark leaved coral bells, pulmonaria with whitish spots, Emily Dickinson & other white edged hostas, a streaked Francee & lots more. There's a White Christmas there that has a wild red japanese maple growing beside it that looks so cool together.
The middle part of that side has a white dogwood tree that branches out by the dining room window & was so pretty till the neighbor cut that limb down.
There are 2 beds there filled with mostly hostas & some pulmonarias. There's a huge hosta I think is Blue Angel. It wasn't tagged when I got it, so I'm not 100% sure. The south end of that side has 2 hostas beds. One has all blue hostas and the other has just a bunch of different ones. Some favorites from there are Paradise Power, Paradise Joyce, Sea Octopus, Sugar & Spice, Brave Amhurst, Janet, & Gertie.
Think I'll save the back yard for another post, since this is pretty long!
