The evergreen clematis tries to overtake the conifer each spring. I just pull out the runners and redirect them back in the other direction on the split rail fence. This is another split rail fence in front of the cabin. The clematis is beautiful with white blooms in the spring and smells SO good!
Sedum planted in cheap thrift store shoes. The sedum will have tiny yellow blooms.
My favorite camellia.
Contorted Filbert AKA Harry Lauder's Walking Stick (great for winter garden interest)
I plan to start reworking this area soon. This was spring 2011 and it has now grown up too much. There is a small Gold Mop Cypress in there that cannot be seen in this picture. It is now tall and overpowers this area. I will probably leave it where it is and relocate some of the other shrubs (pink spirea, yellow arborvitae, and barberry to other areas and move a hydrangea downhill.) I think I will replace the row of daylilies in front with annuals or may mix in some miniature daylilies with the annuals. All the daylilies there have been moved out except for one. On the other side are two yellow Knockout roses that will be moved out too.
Winter Daphne smells delicious!
Bashful Betsy hiding.
More spring color. Loropetalum, redbud and dogwood trees.
Japanese maple with hellebores and May Apples (podophyllum) underneath
Bleeding Heart, I should add more!
Sagae hosta The cabin is surrounded on three sides with clumps of hosta.
A view of Diana's bed with the sprinkler on in April. We water in the spring if we don't a good rain every week. We put in a well a few years ago for the sole purpose of watering the flowers, namely the daylilies. It has proven to be money well spent.
Lady Banks Rose in full bloom.
Lady Bank Rose has finished blooming and has had its annual haircut by April 21st.
Another view of the terraced daylily beds, just a few
weeks later. How quickly everything grows and changes in April. I always feel like I am fighting a wildfire to get all the work done on a very tight schedule.
