Here is part of the same big back bed in early August. Hard to see the iris, but they are there if you look hard enough. This bed is 20 foot deep and 50 foot long.
Perennials in the garden setting...show us your pics #4
I am a big fan of Wanda's iris and daylily beds. Didn't know they were so big. WOW! 20 feet wide! Unless you have 10 foot arms, I'd say there must be steping stones of paths to walk thru? How do you weed?
carol (happy recipient of your 2006 iris give-aways)
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Wanda - stunning !!!! That is what I would LIKE mine to look like, but I have to keep my beds very narrow so I can easily reach across from either side due to my neuropathy. I am so unsteady on my feet some days I can easily fall if I lean forward too much.
You are a master at mixed beds!
Wanda, they are so beautiful! I've added more iris and daylilies this fall, but I'll never have anything like that.
here's my last bloom this fall, a clematis that doesn't know when to quit (it didn't come up until August)
Wanda, Incredible!
fading quickly : Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue', pineapple sage and mexican bush sage
my salvias are located right behind this arbor, to the right
Very pretty gate!
So inviting!
Sandy
love the arbor! can I come in?
corgimom--love the arbor! Mine just went in this summer, so it will be ahile before the climbing roses do their magic.
I don't put paths thru my beds--all of them are just basically 6 foot to 20 foot deep borders around the yard and around the house. I do have paths to the corners of the yard so the dog can run & bark there. My flowers are planted in rows offset into triangle patterns. I like the variety and am always trying something different in the beds to see what will work well with the daylilies, iris & lilies.
This is a 50 foot wide, 6 foot deep bed along a fence line with a bit of shade. Should be more lilies visible, but the bunnies like to visit from next door.
Same fenceline bed in late May.
Happy Birthday Wanda! and as always your beds are beautiful!
-Kim
Wanda, hope your birthday has been as beautiful as your flowers. Many happy returns.
gram
Nice Cake! Thank you for your Birthday greetings. I'm glad you are enjoying my gardens. It was a banner year for irises. It was hard for me to go to work each day & leave them.
I'm hoping to get some of my summer daylilies scanned this weekend ---too cold to do anything in the garden. But when it's 40 degrees in March, I'll declare a "warm" day.
Wanda, I don't have irises but if I could grow them like that......
Sure ,grampapa, come on in if you can stand the weeds !
Here is my largest "tater" that came off the tater vine growing on that arbor:
Oh - happy birthday!!!!!
Tater???
Tater as in pertater, Wanda.
Happy, Happy Birthday!!!!!
As in sweet potato vine? Beautiful and useful, who'd a thunk?
no, not sweet potato vine, tater vine, or air potato (here is my thread about it)
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/666262/
Thank you for explaining. Impossible to keep up on all the cool things DGers grow!
Oops...no gate. It's a pretty arbor. Time to check my prescription.
Very nice Wanda & Happy Birthday!
Wonderful picsof great plants and gardens. Particularly loved lincolnities mums. Lots of plants new to me so interesting to read about them.
This pentstemon is now in full bloom but it grew taller than I expected so it will be moved when it finishes flowering or should I leave it there until just before next spring. Never having grownthem before I am unsure about the best time.
The campunalum is blooming very prettily, you will see an ionium looking ded in the bottom front, it got hit hard with the frosts but I hope it will come right.
Puss thought he would like to be shown in the garden.
Leucospermum 'Wiri"
Last photo.... the first of the lupins is now in bloom.,
OMG those are absolutely gorgeous!!! Please don't say that's the last. Oh oh oh...
I just love them all. but that last one with the soft roses nestled around the white lupines
with all the other pretties packed into such a tight area... glorious. Sheer perfection.
Tess, me, too. the white lupins with the pink roses is delightful! everything else is so pretty, too, though. and the greens are so lush. you will stick with us thru the winter won't you?
gram
Tammy and Grammy, so kind. I took the phptos above an hour ago and the rain has been bucketing down since then. But i went out and took some more and here they come.
Girst one from my kitchen window, it gves me so much pleasure to look out on display.
This is from the side garden, cherry pie in the planter,(Can't remember what it is called but its perfume is gorgeous, Ionium flowering in the backgroud. (Don't think that spelling is losher!)
A Sam McGredy rose ' Schoolgirl' is blooming against the fence and an' Anzac' peoppy, ususally known as the Flanders poppy has just unfurled its first petals. This poppy is the New Zealand and Australian symbol for the service people who have fallen during the first and scond world wars plus those following.
This poppy is the little red flower at the base of the rose. The pansies are all self sown which I have replanted.
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Last pic of the latest garden I am working with. It is still a work in progress and was started in September this year. See the dark leaved flax bush and beside it another one more brightly coloured which was a gift from a firend from her garden.
Wow - what a show! Wanda your borders are gorgeous - I love your iris and daylilies!
Corgimom - beautiful salvias and arbor!
Gram - that clematis is so pretty!
Boojum - what a gloriously wonderful color on those irises!!
Ferrymead - what a wonderous garden you have - wonderful to see images of summer at this gray and dreary time of year! Please keep them coming!!!!
I agree Ferrymead! Great to see spring arriving somewhere! Those lupine & roses!
What is behind the ionium in your second picture?
Poppies are our symbol for the soldiers lost in war too.
ferrymead, your garden is a very welcome sight to me among the dead and dying foliage I see out my windows. I love winter, but I still love seeing the brightness of spring happening somewhere. What's the pink and white flower with that cutie Puss?
ferrymead--I was enjoying your yard pics and was surprised at roses & lupine in bloom NOW. Then I woke up and realized you are in New Zealand with reversed seasons. Stupid me!
If I were rich, I would own homes in all the corners of the world and follow spring/summer around the globe. I think skipping fall & winter would be okay for me.
Wanda, I had same response ! Ferrymead, can I see more of the blue trellis that we get a peek of in your last photo? That is the color I have in my garden and love it ! What a beautiful place you have. I would love to wake up to that every day,too !
ferrymead, your colorful displays are so welcome to us in the northern hemisphere! I love your penstemons- just gorgeous! The rose/lupin combo is stunning.