Looking back at my Garden.

I finally downloaded a bunch of photos from my camera and was pretty shocked at the amount of change that has taken place in my garden in the past year.


March 2008 Before







April 2008 After










March 2009
It's going to take some work to get it back to summer/fall glory.





I love walking and seeing all the hostas and asiatic lilies nubs poking up out of the dirt. A few ferns and hostas didn't make it but pretty much all my perennials did survive the winter. I planted seeds on that mound but only a few are coming up. I guess I'll wait a few more weeks to see how they do and if not I'm going to plant more perennials in there.



I've added more sections to the garden too but, I'll post once I have the "after" shots. Right now it's just large patches of over turned earth.

More plants

Just ordered tons of more plants for the shade garden and a few for the sun garden.

Japanese Burgundy Painted Fern
Green Envy Coneflower
White Feather Hosta
Toad Lillies
Meadow Rue
Twilight Coneflower
Masterwort
Monkshood

love this floor treatment

The ebonizing solution is made with two common products: vinegar and steel wool. A plastic jar with a plastic lid is best to use because the lid won’t rust.
To make ebonizing solution put a coarse steel wool pad in the jar and pour in enough vinegar to cover it, loosely screw the lid on the jar. If the pad is not totally submersed rust will quickly form on the portion exposed to air. After about twenty-four hours pour the vinegar in another jar. Don’t squeeze the vinegar out of the pad or you may get bits of metal in the liquid, which will rust, then just brush the solution on the contoured project pieces you want ebonized.
taken from wood alley

fainting couch

When I get my apartment I'd love to put something like this in it.


It's from Urban Outfitters and I know their quality can be a bit iffy. But I really love the silver violet color. I'd love to put this by a nice arched window and use it for reading or people watching.

Dogwoods

I'm so excited about spring I just bought some flowering dogwoods online


Satomi Dogwood
Cornus kousa 'Satomi'


White Flowering Dogwood
Cornus florida


Red Flowering Dogwood
Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief'


Pink Flowering Dogwood
Cornus florida ruba

Art Orgy

Last night I was avoiding doing my autocad homework and I ended up buying a few prints from my favorite print makers, Lab Partners and Print Mafia. 

I love Lab Partners style. It's like illustrations from the 1950's/60's you'd find in old cook books and children's science books. 




Print Mafia




I Print Mafia for their cult movie, punk rock esthetic and humor. I like how they juxtapose kids drawings with disturbing imagery. The bottom three I bought last night.





p.s. I'm still avoiding the homework by writing this post!!

SPRING!!!

It's raining again but, the last couple of days really felt like spring for the first time. I'm so happy. I can garden again. I already went to a couple of my favorite nurseries to see what they have. I have big plans for the back yard this year. My dad bought me a beautiful Cinco De Mayo rose tree


I absolutely adore it's smokey purple and pink color. I can't wait to see it in person.

My Heuchera collection is growing by leaps and bounds. I just find them so amazing. The foliage is interesting all year round. I'm running out of space in my woodland garden to plant them. I just found the Terra Nova website that is only for wholesale dealers ( not fair!!) and they are coming out with some amazing colors for 2009...
Here are some of my favorites...

Heuchera 'Plum Royale'


Heuchera 'Electra'


Heuchera 'Berry Smoothie'


Heucherella 'Sweet Tea'