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Landscaping 2008 – The Front of Our House




WOW!
Spring 2008 was GLORIOUS!


We had a relatively mild winter with few thaw freeze cycles and in April we were inundated with rain. So, at the beginning of May, the garden was popping! The creeping jenny ground cover I’d tested as a possible replacement for mulch – which is notorious in many ways (it infected our maples with a root fungus) – was taking off and its light green color set off everything growing around it. KC asked me to add more and I did.

First, a picture of the new azalea, in bloom on April 27 :





Here are some pictures of the front taken on May 8, 2008:







And a whole bunch taken during June and July:


The first to bloom were the Husker Red Penstemom:







The annuals:








Next to bloom are the little wine cup lilies :











Followed quickly by the big daddy hosta :





As the lilies and hosta wind down, the black eyed susans open up :







Some views of the whole front of the house:











In a few weeks, the Lemon Queen will bloom, then the sedum, and finally the toad lilies. I am looking for other late blooming lilies to intersperse with the little wine cups so that we’ll have flowers in August.

I am REALLY happy with the front of the house now except for one thing. I would like to replace one of the boxwoods – the one in front of the dining room window -- with a dwarf blue spruce, and will do so this fall, when they’re on sale. I planted some boston ivy this spring which is doing well and will create some additional height without obscuring the windows (a security hazard), in a year or two.

My goal, eventually, is to have a secluded garden as lush as the deck of our Halsted St. Condo:
The deck of our Halsted St. condo


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