Thursday in the Garden

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This summer we had a very nice crop of Black-Eyed Susans in the back garden

Purple Cone Flowers

Verbena

and of course Impatiens

I think this will be our last gardening post for the season kitties since we don't really have any fall bloomers in the garden.

Thursday in the Garden

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Hi kitties, it's gardening day so I thought I would show you the expansion of our little urban garden.  We had a small patch of grass at the front of our house which wasn't doing very well so we decided to rip it all out and make the entire area a garden.  We already had some plantings up by the porch and down by the sidewalk but we needed to fill in the middle.  We've added purple liatris, lavender, yellow day lilies, bee balm, lambs ears, coreopsis, delphinium and a few others that I've already forgotten the names of...oops I never save the tags they come with!  Several bags of black wood chips were the finishing touch and I am very pleased with the results :-)

New front garden

Delphinium

Rose Campion

Bee Balm with butterfly :-)

Moonbeam Coreopsis

Did I mention Casper supervised?

Let's keep these hostas mum :--)

Thursday in the Garden

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As mentioned in my last gardening post I thought we would move to the back garden this week, it is in full-on jungle mode since we got home :-)

This is our standard Viburnam (about 5' high) that we just planted last June, my parents gave it to Robert for his birthday.  For a while there it wasn't looking like it came through the winter so I was delighted when it produced eleven fragrant snowballs!

We call these Johnny-Jump-Ups, I don't know if that is the real name but they are like super tiny pansies.  I never planted these they just appeared on their own :-)

Columbine

Between the Columbine, Astilbe and some weeds I have this plant, which I think might be a Rhododendron!  It has never flowered in the three years we have lived here but always seemed to have some buds on it so I never yanked it out.  This year it had lovely pink blooms.

The ferns, which are my favourite are almost as tall as I am (5'8")!!!

Another Peony ready to burst open

My Bleeding Heart is almost finished but we had loads of blooms this year

Thanks for stopping by kitties, hopefully there will be more new flowers next week :-)

PS - it has been pointed out that my kitties can not be seen in the garden, well I thought I should explain that because they are city kitties, my boys stay indoors so they supervise the garden from the safety of their windows.

Thursday in the Garden

::Three Paw Taps::

Hi All, while we were away it seem things really exploded in the garden.  We left brown grass and twig-like trees and when we returned a jungle had sprouted!!!  I thought I'd share a few pictures, but please remember that we are Townies, so our garden is very small!  Let's go out to the front...

Giant Allum

Peony ready to burst open

I planted Irises a two years ago and last year we only had leaves.  This handsome fella was the first one out and I'm happy to report that five more followed!

This poor little Weigelia doesn't get enough sun, but it managed to make some flowers :-)

Chives blooming

Our mystery tree which is very tall and reaches past the roof of the house.  We think it might be some kind of ornamental Cherry, it doesn't produce any fruit.  NOTE***  Thanks to Lizzie & 3 Kitties we now know this is an Ornamental Bradford Pear!  Yay :-)

The last of the Daffs

and finally, I bought this Hydrangea NINE weeks ago and it still looks fantastic!!!  Does anyone know if I plant it will it bloom again next year, seeing as it is a potted variety?

I hope you enjoyed the tour, next week we'll look at the back garden :-)