dini's Garden

We moved in here just over 1 1/2 yrs ago, and last year I was working ungodly hours, so this is really the first season for me gardening in this new yard.
We did get DH’s rose bed in last year,and a few odds and ends in the various beds I managed to get laid out.
This spring I pretty much concentrated on the shade bed under the 4 big poplars ( oh, how I hate poplars!).
I put in 6 ferns, no idea what variety, they were free, lol, 4 of which have survived this spring’s odd weather. i also put in 3 plantain hostas, 3 different variegated hostas, 4 daylillies, and a couple dozen hen-n-chicks. I also re-sited the bleeding heart, huechera, and astilbe I had place there last year. Now, once I locate a nice supply of free busted up concrete for a drystone wall-type dge, that bed will be pretty well done, maybe have to add a couple annuals again next year until everything fills out.
The front bed, which gets full sun, may be done, depending on how well everything we plunked in there last year does. In an 18 inch deep 12 feet wide bed, I have 3 hollyhocks, 2 handfuls of anemones,2 asters, and a handful of brown-eyed susans, after the crocus and tulips of early spring. Right now the bare spots are filled with petunias and salvia.
This leaves the approximately 40 foot section of hurricane fence, which, right now, looks pretty pathetic. it has 4 clumps of irises (which produced one standard purple iris last year, and one white one this year), one clump of asiatic lillies (no idea yet what color, another freebie), one miniature rose (deep red), one balloon flower (blue), one infant (about 8 inches tall) barberry bush, one clump of daffodils (pretty well died back, now), and an empty section about 12 feet long.
This last bed will be next year’s project, redoing the irises, spreading out the daffs, moving the mini rose and the lillies over into DH’s rose garden, and figuring out what to do with a bed that runs from partial shade to full sun. I know I want height in the back, to hide the fence, I’d like to achieve at least 4 or 5 different heights, turn it into a nice deep cutting garden maybe. Oh, well, that’s for next year’s budget, this year’s is all gone :(

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