NellJean
Member since: Jan 09 | Last seen: Jan 08 | Years gardening: 40 | Organic gardener
Foxes Earth on Garden Web, I garden in rural Southwest Georgia in the land between the Rivers. Water is plentiful, as is sunshine. Winters are mild, summers are hot and humid. The wind whispers in the pine trees and the fragrance of tea olive wafts through the upper garden. Daffodils are blooming and azaleas and dogwoods are just bursting their buds.
The focus of my gardens is on attracting butterflies and other wildlife. My goals are something in bloom year around and fragrance in the garden.
Gardens
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Zone 8b Seventeen azaleas that we rooted from our previous garden went in in 1994, a dozen more were added the next spring. Since then, I layer plants on o...
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Zone 8b A contemplative garden of peace and solitude, the Bacchus garden exists mostly in my imagination despite the exisiting plants. The planned colors i...
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Zone 8b Geophytes are my favorite plant form — any bulb, rhizome, tuber that will grow in my climate. Butterflies are my favorite visitors. I plant n...
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Zone 8b Favorite Colors in the Frontyard beds are Palest Yellow, Chartreuse, Purple, and all shades of orange from palest apricot to scarlet orange. The Ch...
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Zone 8b The Fairy Garden, on the north side of a Live Oak Tree, is planted with mostly ferns and mosses, populated by Beatrice Potter figurines sheltered i...
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Zone 8b Edged with Dianthus ’Bath’s Pink’ and a little row of stones, this area has not ‘come together’ just yet. There are h...
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Zone 8b The Herb square is under renovation. Improving the brick paths, adding herbs, subtracting perennials that are overgrown. Faux fountain in center. H...
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Zone 8b The Long Rock Bed is my favorite garden area. It borders the highway right of way. My goal is year-round interest because it is up front.
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Zone 8b The Native Plant Garden is not a single garden area, but an account of native plants growing throughout the property.
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Zone 8b Roses – Charisma Livin’ Easy Carefree Delight Porter weed – blue Saliva – blue Knophofia Bulbine Crocosmia Alternanthera...
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Zone 8b I love curves, not squiggles. The oval lawn is encircled by ( ) borders on each side. Two paths lead west from the oval lawn. The south bed holds h...
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Zone 8b Esperanza Pride of Barbados Laura Bush petunia Castor Bean Red Cascade rose DL — Sammy Red Porterweed Red Pentas Rabbit Tobacco KO roses (4) ...
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Zone 8b Large limestone rocks were moved from elsewhere on the property to make the backbone of this bed. Permanent plants include daylilies, lantana and d...
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Zone 8b The old Live Oak fell in 2003. A 10 foot stump remained. When I cut the Confederate jasmine that covered it, the stump remains collapsed and fell o...
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Zone 8b In warm weather, the Sunset Garden holds plants for butterflies to nectar: flowers in colors of a sunset: fiery oranges, reds, pinks; tempered with...
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