The Shade Garden

This garden is the one that was completely leveled and the one that is most exciting for me. Some of my old hosta collection came back , but many of the plants here are brand new. This collection of plants enjoy the shade, and dappled sunlight.

We have hosta (all kinds) columbine, astilbe, bleeding heart, lily of the valley, tiger lily, violets and violas, and a few evergreen bonsai planted in the earth to speed and strengthen their growth. Voluptuous flowering begonias are in the planters hanging on the fence. The bird feeders here are very busy and any seed knocked to the ground is eaten by the mourning doves, rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks

This little statue of Mary was given to me by my Aunt Joey before she passed away. She loved this statue and wanted to be sure someone else would love it too and place it in their garden and enjoy it. An old honeysuckle vine trails over the statue, and bleeding heart, lily and viola surround it.

Here is another statue named "Mary" by Samson Contampasis, standing in front of this pine tree. She is also surrounded by columbine, viola and hosta

And another statue by...guess who? Sam... with bonsai planted in the ground behind it and hosta to both sides

So far this is the only chair in this garden and it hasn't been used for sitting yet! Here are more violas, and three peony bushes waiting to be planted out in the Front garden...Next garden is the last one~the Side Garden ...

A Spring Bouquet and garden plans...

I need to get to a greenhouse and buy some pansies this year. That is one of the garden plants that reminds me of my Grandmother Mary the most...She had the old fashioned yellow ones with the root beer colored faces. Every time i see those little flowers i think of her. Also i need some lily of the valley..My daughter Katie is going to let me have some of hers. She got them from my Mother's garden. The ones i had here were lost in the construction....so i am glad to have a few plants from Mom's original gardens.... I lost my old lilac bush when the garage was being built...So i just ordered some old fashioned lilacs from conservation office to be picked up on Saturday. It will take a while for the lilac seedlings to be big enough to bloom, but until then i will just have to go around the neighborhood sniffing everyone else's lilacs!