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Welcome to Kathryn's garden! |
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Flowerbed 2004: The First Year |
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This is my back yard flowerbed. My hope is to have the place humming with birds and bees and butterflies all summer long. |
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Summer 2003. The flowerbed is still just a gleam in my eye. |
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This is from March 2004, I think. |
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April 9. A couple of plants (coreopsis and foxglove) are in the ground. New birdbath, and a hanging pot with nothing in it yet. |
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April 22. More plants! About 15 veronicas, 4 verbenas, 3 rudbeckias, 2 shasta daisies, 1 sad little lupine and countless sunflowers that sprouted from the birdseed. |
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June 2. Loads of plants! Unfortunately, it's really hard to see the blooms in this picture. It's still not quite finished - I have a few more seedlings to set out - but it's lookin' good! |
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July 19. The sunflowers are gone now, but everything else is growing beautifully. Bees and butterflies are daily visitors to the flowers, and birds enjoy the feeders. |
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June 9. Close-up of blue and red veronicas and coreopsis. |
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April 9. The other side of the flowerbed. To the left, daylilies. To the right, a clethra (top) and a viburnum (bottom). The newspaper marks the line of the stepping stone path I intend to put in later. |
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April 22. The stepping stones are new. They're hard to see, but there are a couple of yellow lantanas at the top, six or seven echinaceas at top right, and a chrysanthemum at the bottom right. |
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June 2. The sunflowers have grown huge, the daylilies have started to bloom, and the morning glories are trailing up the trellis and the birdfeeder pole. A couple of fuchsias live in the hanging pot, and white petunias and a couple of calla lilies in the pot to the right. |
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