This was my garden from last year:
Cut to 2010, and the great blizzard we had in February.
The tree? Dead (well, to be fair, it was on its last leg and probably half-dead already).
The pomegranate bush? The sage bush? Calla Lillies??
Dead Dead and Dead.
What did survive?
My orange daylillies, my blue pin-cushion flowers (pictured first above), my Japanese maple tree (thank God), and the paprika yarrow (third pic above).
So, we bought a peach tree, I dug up and divided the daylillies, moved the pin-cushion flowers and yarrow, and added a bunch of mulch - after we weeded and weeded and cleaned up all the dead plants. (Evidently, along with killing plants, snow brings with it lots of little weedy seeds because after the snow melted, the bed filled up with butt-loads of weeds.)
This is how it looks now:
Pretty sparse right now
Oh, and these little creeping blue flowering things... which I don't know the name of. But I bought a little 4-inch pot of them at Home Depot last year, and this stuff has grown!! So much, that I divided it, and the divisions are about 3 times larger now than the 4-inch pot I planted last year!
So, the plan now is to buy some more of the purple fringe-flower bushes to fill in the bare spots. I think that will help tie it all together, and I love their purple leaves!
More to come once those are planted, but for now, here is stage 1.
I love the look of plates grouped together on the wall. So simple and easy.
They can work in bookcases and hutches too.
