Chlorophyll, My Drug of Choice

[botias]

It's too wet to do much else but take pictures, but here's the garden in May. I think the caffeinated chicken poo is working!





I was inspired by river beds when I made these curvy flower beds. The big lettucy things are poppies.



This is very uninspiring. Perhaps if I'd taken pictures of the mess it was before. Still, I am very excited about my infant shade garden.



This is what it looks like in my imagination, so it's more fun for me. The background shrubs are California Wax Myrtle, and Red Flowering Currant. It's my understanding that both are natives that birds love. Everything's native here except that I'm fudging on the rhodies.



'Herb' garden in progress. Oregano and parsley and poppy are visible. Hidden/sown is rosemary, cilantro, summer savory. Wanted: purple sage.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Everything is so lovely and lush, we're still in the 40s around here although the crabapple trees have finally blossomed.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to things beginning to bloom in earnest. Definitely not there yet. I wonder what the flowers are in your icon. :)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

To me it looks like Phlox, Roses and maybe some Mums.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Beautiful - you can see all the planning and the gravel 'river beds' saves worrying over a lawn. And LOVE the virtual shade garden!

Are the raised beds because of clay soil or just ease of planting and separation?

[botias.livejournal.com]

LOVE the virtual shade garden!

Thanks! *blushes*

We do have clay soil and epic amounts of rain and raised beds/planting mounds are a really good idea. But also I am a control freak. I like fixed boundaries, compartments and clean lines.

[prophecygirrl.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to live in your garden. I love the little rock garden addendum with the sedums in it on the face of one of the beds. I love the idea of a magenta poppy. And everyting is cool and green and bursting with health -- go you!
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I just got some nice pieces of slate from freecycle, and am contemplating my first hardscaping project. Well, second, if you count my two raise beds.

Hubby things we just plop them down and make a path. Heee!

[botias.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad someone else likes the rock gardens.

Hah! I can send pics of the results after a decade or so when someone does exactly that: A path to seasickness. :) Some of the chunks of concrete are spectacularly canted.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Your garden is so pretty! I'm going to work in my tomorrow, but it still won't be as pretty.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[wallows.livejournal.com]

very, very pretty.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, beautiful garden. Your dream garden is slowly getting there. It's just takes time, and alot of patience. My mother's shade garden - gorgeous. Pretty soon, you'll have drivebys.

[botias.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I didn't know shade gardening could be so fun.