948esq
Member since: Sep 09 | Last seen: Jun 13 | Years gardening: 15
My wife and I are creating the garden for a 1905 home in Victoria BC. It has been over grown with English ivy, periwinkle and black berries for about 30 plus years. Any of the previous years work has been largely lost under the brush.
As we clear a section new plants emerge and it is always a surprise. Often I am pulling and digging out some unknown weed, only to find a stray that has escaped my hoe that is a lovely perennial, not a “demon seed”.
It has a great south east facing slope of rock and terraces that some hardy soul built at one time. We discovered it 2 years after we started on the garden. It is a great opportunity and a weeding nightmare.
Cheers!
Gardens
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Driveway - Main entrance garden
Zone 7 Right at the sidewalk, 2 feet off the ground. Get lots of garbage and people poking around in this bed.
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Zone 7 This area is for butterflies and herbs. Unfortunately it does not get full sun only part. The soil is quite shallow and still needs some augmenting.
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Zone 7 This is a sun deck about 12 by 20 feet. We have no yard off the back door because we are on a rock cliff.
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Zone 7 This garden has been over grown for years. Now that it is cleared out I am trying to some plants established. The Arbutus tree that was in this b...
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Zone 7 This are the South East facing terraced gardens. Uncovered and rebuilt when we removed years of English Ivory and Blackberries.
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Zone 7 After digging out all the weeds, I found the soil very dry, in shade, and filled with road base.
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Zone 7 This was an area overgrown by English ivy and black berries. I need to include some current pictures of this area. It has been reclaimed from the ...
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Zone 7 Removed 3 feet depth of English Ivy from this slope and revealed a lovely rock face.
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Zone 7 Part Shade flower and shrub garden named after our late dog Sam. This will eventually become an all season perennial garden. This bed has evolved i...
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Zone 7 One hosta, two asters, one new Japanese anemone and a large old red Rhodo.
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