How does YOUR garden grow?

hatfeathers

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I thought I would share one of my fave tidbits from this year's garden. My neighbors thought I was an even bigger loon than usual when I drug this bike home...it had been in a neighbor's shed which had caught on fire a decade ago and had been left to rust by the prior owners. The new folk thought it trash, but AHA! TREASURE!!

Can you see it?
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I planted morning glories under it, but they high tailed it for the deer fence behind the bike. I have a nursery/veggie bed in a square that was a garage, where I removed the cement and trucked in dirt. The fence keeps Bambi from eating my baby plants and salvage plants (I rescue from construction sites and garden cleanups).

Here's a virtual bouquet for you:
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And finally, I'm so happy to see a bloom on this peach day lilly. The lillies in this bed are rumored to have been sent to the former residents of my home by Adolphus Bush Sr, since the hubby was in the beer distribution business. There was an overgrown tree there, so they didn't get enough sun. We took out that tree, and I'm letting a volunteer Redbud grow on the other side of the bed, so now they get sun and are blooming!
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How are your Earthen ventures doing?
 
fantastical!!! love the bijou areas..the bike...great posts...if l can find my camera lead l will post...
 
Woo hoo - now we're talking - Love the bike in the landscape. I actually need to take some pix of the gardens, but here are a few general snaps. I grow perennials in the field and dig and pot them in the spring for sale. First is 'Souvenir d'Andre Chaudron' Nepata, a good cut flower ... and then some astilbes in the growing fields.


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A bouquet for a wedding

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And part of my display last week at farmer's market...


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Oh, cool Amanda...how would nepeta/catmint do in a bright yet shaded area? Is it a sun whore, or a bit more adaptive?
I need some more things for a bright yet shady area at the park. It gets a lot of bright reflected, diffused type light all day, but nothing direct, until about 6pm when it gets a rude hour of direct evening sun. And I have deer. Oh, dear do I have deer.
 
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