2015 Garden Design

[ChanellG]

So now that I have all these new plants, I need to sort out arranging them into an actual garden as opposed to just a bunch of stuff sitting around in pots. I don't want to do too much in-ground planting until I get the hardscaping and home repairs/maintenance seen to, but I'm starting to group things into sections.

Edibles are in back of the house in large tubs. I have Arabian Jasmine, gardenia, and night blooming Jasmine that I've decided to place under my bedroom window (back of the house). There's a large Japanese magnolia that I'd like to underplant, but it's deciduous so everything that loves shade would be in full sun in late winter until after the tree blooms.

I have a growing collection of butterfly and hummingbird plants, my herbs, a growing selection of perennials... new roses... I just stuck a big batch of cuttings and will be sticking more shortly... (Can you have too many plants?)

What's growing/blooming now:

The upside down terra cotta saucers are covering my makeshift flower pot ollas. Cucumber, squash, tomatoes, etc., surrounded by aromatic herbs, borage, marigold, geranium, lavender, petunia, and nasturtium to repel the bad bugs.

Have already taken down the white tent walls; greenhouse is coming down soon as well. Will try and recycle it somehow.

Rose of Sharon just started to bloom!

Passion flower

Hoping to get a few more rounds of blooms from the gardenia

This is a miniature rose from last year...

Can't get the phone to upload any photos for some reason (linked these from Facebook). Will have to charge up the camera and take new pix.

 

[grouie]

Garden story best ever told. You have a load of gardening lined up there. Good Luck.

 

[CanadianLori]

You inspire me. My potatoes in a laundry basket are testimony to that!

 

[Becky]

The passionflower is beautiful! It all looks and sounds great, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next

 

[ChanellG]

Thanks, everyone!

The phone is cooperating today, yay! One of my new rose bushes. I thought I'd selected something else. but looked at the tag recently and realized I brought home the wrong rose! The white geranium just below it in the frame is also new.

This is my blue butterfly clerodendron. These were the first blooms it put out recently - maybe in the last week?

The rain day before yesterday knocked the flowers off my Arabian jasmine. It's also new; can't wait for that one to grow and be full of flowers!

 

[CanadianLori]

I have two of those temp ghs. What I do is remove the front sections and make a shelf set with them and store the leftovers to pu it back together in the fall. Then the whole lot comes apart and is stored for the winter. I'll try to take a pic. Tonight got to put the plastic back onn, we're dropping down to 36fdoing my happy dance because my messy neighbours put up lattice last weekrnd, lucky me!!!!!!

 

[zigs]

Looking good there Girls

 

[Sheal]

That's a lovely assortment of plants you have there Chanell. I have a soft spot for blue flowers so your Clerodendron caught my eye.

Lori, it all looks tidy and well organised, that's how I like things to be too.

 

[ChanellG]

Looking good there Girls

Thanks, Zigs!

That's a lovely assortment of plants you have there Chanell. I have a soft spot for blue flowers so your Clerodendron caught my eye.

I have blue plumbago as well. I've been wanting more of it and just scored another plant on the discount rack. I also saved a bunch of cuttings from when I pruned one in someone's yard on Monday that I'm hoping to root. It's one of my new favorite flowers because of it's staying power.

 

[ChanellG]

I have two of those temp ghs. What I do is ... Then the whole lot comes apart and is stored for the winter... doing my happy dance because my messy neighbours put up lattice last weekrnd..

Love your set up, Lori! I wish mine were that neat and organized! One day I'll get there. The seasonal part is the opposite with me. The summer is when I dismantle and store stuff, though the racks still come in handy for plant starts and so forth.

 

[CanadianLori]

Oh, do not be a neat freak like me. Your back will thank you. I moved all three of those sections, plants and all before I got them where they would suit my fancy! The palramgh is on a frame, insulated, wired and irrigated with low flow. Still got to redo the waterworks.

 

[CanadianLori]

Chanel, just noticed your door tied up on the outside. I did this too because that's the way the instructions picture it but i found that if you flip it up inside and tie to the roof strut it stays neatly out of the way.

 

[ChanellG]

Oh, do not be a neat freak like me. Your back will thank you. I moved all three of those sections, plants and all before I got them where they would suit my fancy! The palramgh is on a frame, insulated, wired and irrigated with low flow. Still got to redo the waterworks.

Ha, Lori! One thing I promise you no one will ever call me is a neat freak! I'm not a slob, but I don't always have time to tidy up. My garden is a big mess of containers - most needing to be transplanted because I acquired a lot of plants at once and I often get busy and just don't have the time to do stuff.

 

[ChanellG]

Chanel, just noticed your door tied up on the outside. I did this too because that's the way the instructions picture it but i found that if you flip it up inside and tie to the roof strut it stays neatly out of the way.

That is brilliant, Lori! Rolling it up more or less keeps it out of the way, but rainwater collects in the roll and I'm always having to to dump it out to avoid getting an unwanted shower, and of course I don't want there to be stagnant water or algae up there.

The cover's torn and the greenhouse is shot, but maybe there's a way reuse part of it...

 

[CanadianLori]

The windiw insulation, you know the film that shrinks to size stuff that is sold at home depot, the brand also sells a roll of adhesive tape. Not the two sided stuff but the oe that is 2 inches wide.is super sticky and strong. I used it on the plastic and lots of other outdoor bandage jobs. Check out the section where they have the weatherstripping and you should find it there.

hope this helps.