kimberlysteele | Jun. 4th, 2020

The garden... it's a work in progress for sure!

First, the beautiful path my husband built. I wish I had not lost the old pictures of the front yard when we moved in and my phone got stolen (it was later returned). The yard was nothing like it is now. My amazing husband built this path directly over the muddy, sunken sidewalk in gravel two years ago. This year, he went over the gravel in brick. Can you believe has never taken a single landscape design class?

The formal front garden is my design and my husband's build. I am in the process of propagating enough boxwoods to grow them as a hedge as you typically see in formal gardens. I'm not sure if I will fill the beds with hydrangea like the ones in front or just go with various perennials such as sedum and daylily as I have started to do here.

Here is a view from the side. Cedric the cedar is in the background and you might be able to see I have made a tiny corner garden by the path. In that corner have transplanted one of the many maple seedlings that comes up in my beds there along with a hosta and an evergreen that I have been trying to propagate from cuttings from a bush at work. All the hostas were divisions from my parents' garden. The ferns were donations from their next door neighbor who was getting rid of them because he was putting an addition on his house. The black cohosh is a division from a huge plant in my parents' garden. The tree is a pear from Home Depot I have had for three years. No fruit yet!

Here's the baby oak I transplanted from the bed full of dill to the back... He or she needs a name!
Any suggestions?

Here is the back. My husband has been busy! He built a beautiful porch AND a two story feral cat hotel! Not long after we moved in, he built the Celtic cross garden, again my design and his build. I have planted it out with marigolds, daylilies, and herbs this year: anise hyssop, wild monarda, mint, catmint, thyme, sage, oregano, yarrow, and skullcap.