Katy’s New Side Yard Garden

Planting up a new garden area

My name is Katy , and I garden in Zone 7B , in Tsawwassen British Columbia , Canada , just to the south of Vancouver . We have a modified Mediterranean mood with heavy winter rainfall and blistering , ironic summers — this yr , complete with a heat dome . I have gardened on this suburban game for 20 yr . Oursoil is sandyand free - draining , and it eat up all the amendments I can tot to it .

The garden photos I am send you are from my side yard . We have about 12 fundament between our sign and our neighbour ’s garden wall . Previously , this arena consisted of dead - ish weed , weeds , a few shrub , and a small tree that I planted to screen the garden wall from the bedroom windows . in the beginning this outflow , we had some construction work done in the backyard , and the skunk in this area was all deflower . For any cherry-red - full-blooded nurseryman , this portray a challenge to be surmount ! Undaunted by the boggy wreckage , I asked our landscaper to pick out all the old supergrass and add a winding way of life of bluestone pavers . I am enamour with the upshot , which supply character and mystery to an sphere that was previously a useful walking - through — like , when do I get to the veridical garden ? Now , it is one of my favorite places to hesitate , sit with a cup of tea , and smell the heyday .

Although it ’s only in its first summertime , this garden already front full and established , in the main because the woody structure was already in office . With asmall garden , it is hard to keep a sequence of flowers go , but I think I have managed to cover most time of year withsnowdrops , genus Trollius , and an ahead of time - flowering yellow daylily to plow off bounce ; the rose wine , lilies , and Banksia integrifolia for high summer ; and thehelianthus , dahlia , and ginger for late summertime . TheHeptacodium ’s elegant shape provides structure during the bare wintertime month .

Lonicerajaponica‘Halliana ’ ( Zones 4–9 ) grows on a trellis fence jury , withHydrangea quercifolia(Zones 5–9),Calycanthuschinensis(Zones 6–8),Heptacodiummiconoides(Zones 5–9 ) , and David Austin’sRosa‘Desdemona ’ ( Zones 5–9 ) providing the woody structure and a basic color dodge of white and white-livered flowers , with jot of pink come from the meeting house . Once the path went in , I bring perennials for a long season of efflorescence , fragrance , and some leaf interest .

Rosa‘Honey Dijon ’

chickenhearted Oriental lilies(Liliumhybrid , zone 5–8 )

A gargoyle keeps observe next to the bright yellow flowers of dusty miller(Senecio cineraria , Zones 7–10 or as an annual ) .

YellowHedychium(Zones 8–10 ) in a lot stick out in front ofHosta‘Sum and Substance ’ ( zone 3–8 ) .

Dahlia‘Yellow Star ’ ( geographical zone 8–10 or as a attender bulb )

Hemerocallis‘Prague Spring ’ ( Zones 5–9 )

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