The new garden bed, at the street corner. We'll likely end up calling this the "Street Corner Garden."
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Showing some stress from the heat, despite daily watering for these mostly-new plantings. The Columbines, in particular, have collapsed, which is likely OK but I'll be holding my breath come spring.
And our poor lawn's gone brown.
We need rain. We really need rain.
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The end of our driveway turned out to be a decidedly hostile environment. Every year I'd plant a bunch of Iris. By the next spring they'd be dead, and I'd plant a bunch more.
This went on for about a decade.
Finally these took.
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The garden we call The Circle. Trust me, it usually looks better than this....
This bed began as a circle of bricks, sometime in the summer of 1992 (I think). I originally planted some crocuses and freesia inside the circle--both still flourish, here, and are usually our earliest-blooming spring flowers. There are also a few tulips in the mix. For summer color I originally planted some pansies.
Then Joan arrived, bringing (among other things) her Shasta Daisies. Ever since, this has been an early spring/mid-summer garden, with a dormant season between. Usually we plant a few annuals around the outside, just to add some early-summer and fall color.
Right now, obviously enough, the Daisies need to be divided, rearranged, and (for some of them) transplanted to another bed. One of the next few days' projects....
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As you can see, calling this a "flower bed" is a bit of a stretch. Somehow we arranged for these Painted Daisies to share a corner with random weeds, tall grass, and milkweed.
The door into the garage opens, by the way, but you can't get in or out through here because the way's blocked by old appliances. We occasionally decide to let the wind blow through, and in winter we run a power cable out to the backyard birdbath's heater.
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