Spring Garden Updates
My favorite “thyme” of year!
We replaced our dingy old winter planters with some new spring life! They look so bright and fresh! Filled with: osteospermum, alyssum, guara, carex, English thyme, and super bells
Here’s the before! Yuck! Still had Christmas decorations and a bunch of dead branches. Totally ready for it’s spring facelift!
This Spring we finally started tackling the side of our backyard. It got completely destroyed when we did our master bedroom addition and it was finally time to spruce it up.
Here’s some horrible before pictures and they don’t even do the disaster justice! We had broken sprinkler lines sticking out of the ground, gravel, concrete pieces, a broken fence, etc. disaster.
First I had to fix the fence! Before I got around to fixing the fence I still needed away to stop my twins from running into the street, hence the 2 lounge chairs propped up across the yard 😂 I’m sure my neighbors were happy to see that get fixed! We brought in 8 yards of soil, dumped it and spread it ourselves to level the yard from getting torn up by the excavators.
Here’s a picture of the soil just after being laid. I made a pallet walkway to cut through to our side fence and started expanding the flower beds around the fire pit, pergola and fence.
We put down tons of grass seed. We got a mix from Kennedys Country Gardens, a local garden center, near our house that had a seed mix specialized for New England sun and shade areas. You can see it was just starting to fill in.
On the side of the house it’s partial sun so we planted a row of bloomstruck hydrangeas. They love the spot.
Below the hydrangeas we have some yellow columbine, some dark heuchera, a few forget-me-nots, a drift of brunnera, a dogwood shrub, and some spring blooming azaleas (for winter interest) since they are evergreen in our area.
Swooping around the back side of the fire pit we have rose of Sharon, a swoop of penstemon “dark towers” for some dark foliage color, Veronica (the purple spikes) some daisies, beach grass that I divided from another part of our garden (free plants yay!) and some peach yarrow. So far so good and everything is thriving
On the other side of the fire pit we get more sun so I planted a lot of sun loving plants. We have a big crepe myrtle, a butterfly bush, tons of David Austen roses (the lady gardener) hardy geraniums, guara, coreopsis, and some catmint. This is one of my favorite flower beds in the yard. It’s packed with color, something is always blooming and it really gives the whole area a nice cottage garden vibe, which is my favorite type of garden!!
