We finally pulled out the last of the privet in our front shrubbery bed. I left my name with the nice people at Pike’s and they called me when they got a new shipment of Georgia Petite Indian Hawthornes. I put in a total of 5, and though the last three I purchased were the …
Category Archives: Starter Home Gardening
Front Yard Shrubbery Bed
After replacing and moving almost every plant in our yard since moving in, I am finally getting around to changing out the shrubs right in front of our house. The previous homeowners had planted six privet bushes in two clumped arrangements with a Loropetalum in the middle. It has been a constant battle to keep …
Flower Bed Makeover
There is a flower bed directly under the windows of our living room that I have had plans to completely make over for a while now. When we first moved in, the previous owners had purchased four young Gardenias and placed them about a foot from the house in the bed. At the time, the …
Front Yard Gardening – Spring 2013
A few pictures for comparison. The angles are not perfectly lined up, but it gives you an idea. The Coral Bark Japanese Maple tree is slowly getting bigger each year. The comparison pictures are from June 2010, March of last year and this week. The daylilies that I transplanted from the courtyard to beside the …
Backyard Gardening – Spring 2013
This past year, I started working on moving and grouping the different flowering plants in our yard. I moved some white irises, canna lilies, asiatic lilies, gladioli, and added some tulips and daffodils to the right side of the hill in the back yard. The irises have bloomed, as well as the new daffodils. The …