When we bought our forever home, the lot was overgrown in almost every way. We have been working on clearing the non-native invasive plants, like privet, english ivy and nandinas. We also have cleared some dying trees and shrubs that aren’t in proper places. We have just over 3 acres on our lot, much of which we haven’t even walked, much less addressed – hopefully we’ll get there, eventually.
There weren’t many flowering plants on the property, so my mom has been helping me put lots of plants transplanted from her yard into our yard.
Plants that were already on the property:
Azaleas (the era in which our house was built was a boom time for azaleas)
Mophead Hydrangeas
Red Buckeyes
Silky Dogwood
Hostas
Atamasco Lily
Ebony Spleenwort
The following are plants that came to me from my mom’s garden, some native, some non-native:
White Hyacinths
Grape Hyacinths
Hellebores
Daffodils
Tullips
Toad Lily
Geraniums
Penstemon
Blue Star Flower
Dwarf Crested Iris
Columbine
Mouse-eared Coreopsis
Sundrops
Celandine Poppy
Hostas and Coral Bells
Tiarellas
Trillium
Fly Poison and Royal Ferns
Fothergilla major ‘Mount Airy’
Carolina Silverbell
Grancy Greybeard
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Clethra
Sedge – as a ground cover along a water run-off area
The following are plants I’ve been working on adding to the yard:
Blue Mouse-eared Hosta
Blue-eyed grass
Iris
Miss Scarlett Illicium – as a foundation shrub in front of our garage
Eternal Fragrance Daphne – as foundation shrubs in front of our porch
Coral Bells and Creeping Jenny
Weeping Japanese Maple
That pretty little plant with the dark red veins under your native grass is a rattlesnake weed, which should bloom with yellow blooms in the summer.