My garden

I love to grow gardens! A few years ago I started a few small flowerbeds at the house where we were living at the time. I grew to love the time I would spend planting, caring, and watering these beds. I planted a few different types of flowers: lavender, Mexican heather, daffodils, hyacinth, English primrose, spiderwort, pulmonaria, bleeding heart, columbine, pansies, iris, and lily of the valley. It was wonderful to see things that you have planted grow and bloom.

A flowerbed in the backyard

Last year we moved and I had to find a new home for my plants. As we were moving temporarily to a smaller townhouse (and I was thinking that having to dig them back out in the wintertime was not going to be a good idea) I asked my parents if I could use a little area for them at their house. So that is what I did.

Iris in my garden at my mother's

I have a small flowerbed at my parents where I planted several of my plants as well as some others I had bought and rooted. My mother had been teaching me about rooting forsythia and I had been attempting to grow some for the past two years. I went by today and low and behold my forsythia plants, all four that survived, are growing! I went over last month to clean the weeds from the garden and they were only about 1 ½ to 2 inches high. Today they were about 6-8 inches tall! This year so far I have growing in this flowerbed: two spiderwort plants, a calla lily (called Naomi Campbell), red lilies, three lavender bushes, cannas, forsythia, iris, a roma tomato plant, strawberries, as well as several different herbs that I bought for my mother. In other areas around my mother’s house I also have my lily of the valley, pulmonaria, and bleeding heart.

Pulmonaria (one of my favorites)

I have also been so excited to see my little container garden here growing! Here I have some similar plants as at my mother’s as well as a few new ones. I have growing here:

Bleeding heart
Columbine (two different varieties)
Hyacinth
Balloon flower
Bee balm
Sedum (two different varieties)
Money plants
Mexican heather
Rosemary
Oregano
Lavender (two different varieties)
Roma tomatoes (3 plants)
Spinach
Sugar peas
Okra (finally broke out of the ground this week!)

A corner of my container garden