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| Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription...and with no limit on dosage. -Author Unknown |
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| Well finally I got some photos for 2003. I have decided that the best way to display them would be as if you were walking through my garden. I have also decided that maybe I should make a page just for Hosta's considering I'm now totally addicted to collecting them. At this time I'd like to thank all those wonderful people with Hosta websites that warned me of this addiction... Too late! |
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| As you walk in the gate, you enter onto a stone patio that looks out into the main garden through an arbour... |
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| When you look to your right, you see the Engleman Ivy climbing along the fence. To the lower left you see the Hosta Ventricosa that is in the next photo. |
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| Hosta Ventricosa grows very happily in the stone wall on the patio... |
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| Now, looking to your left, you see the fountain surrounded by ferns, violets, coleus and if you look closely under behind the garden pot, you'll see one of my latest editions of Hosta Wolverine. I'll take a photo of this one when it gets a little bigger. |
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| As you walk through the arbour that is covered with Engleman's Ivy and Jackmanii Clamatis. Notice the four pots of Hosta's on the patio waiting to be split with a friend and planted :) I told you...I'm addicted! |
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| Looking to the left you see part of the river garden in full bloom with carpet rose, cranesbill geranium, sage, ornamental lillies and of course if you look closely, Hosta Elizabeth... |
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| A new addition for 2003! The Birdhouse Condominium. As I mentioned earlier, I lost my Birch tree in the dought of 2002. Rather than trying to remove the stumps from which it graciously grew, I decided to cut them off at varying heights to make a "Birdhouse Condo. Here you will find The Homestead, a General Store, a Barber Shop and a Church. BD would be so proud of me! |
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| Another new addition for 2003! The Pond. I had thought of putting a pond in all winter long. It's just one of those small kits you get from your local department store, all modified with limestone rock of course. I have 5 fish in there, 3 Pond fish which look like overgrown goldfish, and two Shubunkin...AND....I'm ecologically correct!!! Everything is thriving wonderfully. Maybe i'll go a little bigger next year? |
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| Hosta Loyalist...what a beauty! This specimen is nestled near the pond. |
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| If you look a little further to the left, you see the gate that leads to my mother's garden. Hovering over the gate is an arbour that is covered with a White Dawn climbing rose and Honeysuckle. It's a hummingbirds paradise! |
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| Lillies! Close to the pond they give a nice show. |
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| Now, back further in the garden, looking to the southeast is a nice view of the river garden. Originally I had planned on planing this all white and blue to resemble water, but eventually the palatte took on pinks yellows and reds, although most of what is in bloom now are in the blue cool tones. Psst...notice the Hosta Ventricosa and Hosta August Moon nestled behind the birdbath? |
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| Hosta August Moon. I thought I had lost this in the drought of 2002 as it was so slow emerging this spring. Obviously this was not the case. Whew! |
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| Hosta undulata Mediovariegata....sits in the hosta garden under the corkscrew willow. |
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| My woodland garden that sits under the corkscrew willow in the northeast corner of the garden. Most of the plantings in here are hostas of various types along with Columbine and Astilbe. Venus is a new addition this year. |
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| A close up of Hosta Royal Standard that sits at the feet of Venus in the Woodland Garden. |
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