2023 52 Card Project: Week 33: Perennials

[pegkerr]

I spent waaaaaayyy too much time on this collage, and I'm not entirely satisfied with it, but my technical chops couldn't quite match the scope of my inner vision. Oh, well.

Now that my foundation has been fixed, I have fulfilled a four-year dream and planted a perennial garden on the south side of my house. My sister Betsy came over to help me get the plants in the ground.



I'm a bit gobsmacked at the amount of money I've spent, but I'm pleased with it and hopeful about how it will look in the next year or two.

I'd intend to inset closeups of the various flowers in the garden within the picture of the garden itself. Didn't quite work after a long time I decided to quit messing with it and just post something simpler.

Image source: A garden of perennial plants and flowers planted at the side of a house with blue paint and white trim. In the four corners, yellow-petaled flowers form a frame. Overlaid text in yellow reads 'The Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.'

Perennials



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Comments

[pameladean]

Oh, that looks really promising! What all did you plant? P.

[pegkerr]

Back of the garden: the center is a chokeberry bush, and then moving out from that, mirrored on both sides is Ox eye (Heliopsis helianthoides - the variant I planted is "Summer Nights") Bee Balm (Monarda "Raspberry Wine"), three colors of phlox.

Middle: Aster, Black-eyed Susans, Geum ("Prairie Smoke") and Yarrow ("Saucy Seduction.")

Front of the garden is anchored by two Weigula in the two front corners, surrounded by Cranesbill ("Roxanne"). Then Coral Bells (Heuchera - "Plum Pudding") and Salvia ("May Nights") in the front.

[ndrosen]

That does look pretty, and you have Ukrainian colors. 😊