Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the middle of a Wisconsin winter

[Huntress78]

Quote: Well, I'm definitely lacking the knowledge to put together a garden like that....I even have a hard time doing flowers in containers. Every spring I get a plant to keep on the deck as a memorial for my mom. A couple years ago I bought a pretty geranium in a color she would have loved and potted it up. It looked kinda lonely so on my next trip to the store I got some flower seeds to plant around the edges of the pot to fill in. What I thought were six inch flowers turned out to be six foot vines! What an ugly mess. You would think someone who has been vegetable gardening for 45 years would have picked up a few tips on flowers eh?

Will add that zinnia to my list of must haves...love the color. Do you remember the name of the daylilly?? I think that one needs to find a home here also.

 

[lazy gardener]

Old hen: You have a definite knack for design. I give you the ultimate yard beautification award! I love the way you work with zinnias.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Old hen:  You have a definite knack for design.  I give you the ultimate yard beautification award!  I love the way you work with zinnias.

Thank you, you are too kind, to me, I just throw things together based on size and color and hope it works. I have come to love zinnias for their multiple colors, sizes and forms.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Well, I'm definitely lacking the knowledge to put together a garden like that....I even have a hard time doing flowers in containers. Every spring I get a plant to keep on the deck as a memorial for my mom. A couple years ago I bought a pretty geranium in a color she would have loved and potted it up. It looked kinda lonely so on my next trip to the store I got some flower seeds to plant around the edges of the pot to fill in. What I thought were six inch flowers turned out to be six foot vines! What an ugly mess. You would think someone who has been vegetable gardening for 45 years would have picked up a few tips on flowers eh?

Will add that zinnia to my list of must haves...love the color. Do you remember the name of the daylilly?? I think that one needs to find a home here also.

I cannot remember the exact name, I will check to see if I kept the plant tag, I got from my local Menards(home improvement store) and believe it had the name grape in it.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Every year I plant a little different, here's that full bed, i think two years ago, more marigold that year. Needs weeding.

Here's my pond, from last fall after we emptied it. Hopefully will fire it up again in the next month.

 

[Huntress78]

I get to Menards often...too often lately with building the house. I'll keep an eye out for the lily.

Don't think I'll ever get to the point of having such a large formal garden like yours but it sure is pretty. Gargoyles protecting the pond...luv them! A good use for all the field stone here...did you make it yourself?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

We did make it ourselves, the top of our barn was coming down, the front half has a cinder block wall, the back half was a crumbling stone wall. We took down the top, rebuild a roof on the front part and turned the back into a garden. The pond is stone and mortar, my husband and I did it, on either side of it, are the gutters, which I plant in. Unfortunately the walls continue to crumble and we will have to tweak it again into a ruins garden.

I like the style of English gardens, with shrubs and symmetry. Glad to hear you know about Menards, we should own half of ours by now with all our purchases too.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I might as well share more of last year's gardens, apparently it will never stop snowing and warm up this year so i can get going on it.

 

[limited25]

Very pretty! Is that herbs too?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

No, mostly shrubs and a few flowers, I buy shrubs than put them in pots, I think it's that English garden thing. Thank you.