Thursday, June 29, 2017

Lost Garden

When we moved in the gardens had not been touched since they took pictures to sell the house. They had mowed the lawns but had left the vegetable garden in the yard and flower gardens along the borders alone. There are still projects to work on in the house but we will tackle those later in July. Since the house is mostly in order we decided to put some effort into the yards.

One of the things we did was to find the lost garden. It was dug into the side yard and comes out even with the fence. It had 2 blueberry bushes in it when we bought it but the renters dug up one and took it with them. Bad!!!! The seller's relator bought us a new one. They also took some other plants but since I can't identify them they are history. There is also some strawberry plants, a viola, 2 rose bushes, and LOTS of grass/weeds in the garden. It took us 4 days to find the garden...here it is



I don't know the name of all the plants at our new house so I spent a few hours at a local nursery identifying some of the plants so I could take better care of them. This is just a list of some of the plants:
Calla Lilies
Salvia, purple
Rhododendrons
Sedum (stonecrop), Autumn Joy
Japanese Aralias, Japanese Paper Plants
Primroses
Columbines
Lupines
Heavenly Bamboo
Clematis, Piilu
Peonies
Bleeding Hearts
Daylilies
Lilies
Wintercreeper, Emerald "n Gold
various bulbs
Hydrangeas
Lavender
Spider Plants
Hostas
Daisies
various ferns
Irises
Camilla
Roses-I counted 26 plants!
8 Pine trees
Volunteer Cherry trees-they are coming out and other fruit trees will take their place
Weeping Cherry tree-also coming out
Beech Tree-also coming out
Maple Tree
various bushes yet to be identified

I won't put up pictures of all those plants but here are some pictures of the roses. Some pictures I took while they were blooming on the bushes. And some pictures are just some that I picked. You can see some of the different varieties of roses in the bouquets. I can pick 1 or 2 bouquets a week and still have roses to look at on the bushes!

 






More pictures and stories to come.

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