SneIrish

Member since: Nov 08 | Years gardening: 10 Organic gardener Folia Supporter Folia Helper

I have dabbled in gardening for years, but started taking things very seriously when my husband was on active duty in the Middle East in 2003-2004. I love perennials, and do a small basic vegetable garden every year. The past two years my husband has also been bitten by the gardening bug and has his own projects – Roses and a flowering shrub garden. It’s a great shared interest. I love to experiment with seeds, cuttings and rootings – just to watch things grow from scratch! I am also learning how to use my digital camera to take interesting pics of my flowers, plants and garden visitors. I thoroughly enjoy seed saving and trading, which I have discovered as a new addictive hobby this past summer 2008. I am always eager to try new and unusual flowers and plants, so let me know what you have to trade!

My husband and I share our house with 2 Boston Terriers, Lucy and Darby, and a domestic gray Tiger, Toby. We both work full time in the health care field. We have 5 very grown sons and 5 lovely daughters-in-law, and 11 grandchildren now with another due in March 2009. It all keeps us very busy.

This site is great. I am having a wonderful time – and productive too – as I consider all my plants and gardens to enter them into the files. This will keep me “working” on my garden all winter! Yay!

Gardens

2010 Wintersowing garden

Zone 6b OK, here we go! Year Two of Wintersowing. Lots of lessons learned from Year One experience. This year, altogether more selective - about containers...
- 0 plants
- 1 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Boggy Backyard Corner garden

Zone 6b This is the lowest spot in the yard and is the northwest corner of the backyard. When it rains, depending on the amount, it can become anything fro...
- 17 plants
- 28 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Borders garden

Zone 6b "The Borders" is my name for the area on each side of the front walk to the steps and the front door. In the early spring they are filled with spri...
- 26 plants
- 78 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Butterfly - Bee - Bird garden

Zone 6b I actually started this garden as just a small generic strip along the side of the house. The first thing planted here was the cutting from my fath...
- 89 plants
- 256 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Cedar Tree garden

Zone 6b This is a recently started garden in the summer of 2008. I had a few plants that I wanted that needed mostly shade, so I decided that under my (fav...
- 20 plants
- 43 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Corner garden

Zone 6b The Corner Garden defines part of the boundary between our yard and our neighbors to the north, and runs from the Arbor Gateway along the outside o...
- 29 plants
- 72 journals
- 1 faves
- 0 comments
Gnomeville garden

Zone 6b This is the garden area to the left (south) side of the front walk. When we moved here in 1987 it was originally a narrow area foundation planting ...
- 101 plants
- 276 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Herb garden

Zone 6b I started this Herb garden in the spring of 2008. It is an area within the fenced in perimeter of my under-deck garden workshop. The garden itself ...
- 24 plants
- 40 journals
- 1 faves
- 0 comments
Heritage garden

Zone 6b This garden is from the side of our garage at the driveway to the edge of the road. It was originally only to be a cottage garden, and I started to...
- 95 plants
- 175 journals
- 2 faves
- 0 comments
Inside the House garden

Zone 6b I have always had houseplants since I was a teenager (very long time ago), and always had a pretty good success rate growing and managing them. The...
- 67 plants
- 189 journals
- 0 faves
- 1 comments
Little Visitors garden

Zone 6b This, of course, is not really a garden. But it is a record of the wildlife visitors to our gardens. They fly, hop, prance and run... but I love to...
- 0 plants
- 34 journals
- 4 faves
- 2 comments
New Stuff Planting & Patiently Waiting garden

Zone 6b First, this is a collection of my attempts to propagate new plants - from seeds, bulbs, rooted cuttings, trying-to-be-rooted cuttings, etc. This is...
- 30 plants
- 243 journals
- 0 faves
- 4 comments
Outside Container 2009 garden

Zone 6b These are my pot and container plantings that I have in various places around the yard during the summer. They include everything from hanging bask...
- 31 plants
- 40 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Rhodie garden

Zone 6b When we moved here in 1987, there was a stand of three small Rhododendron bushes planted together in the north side of the front yard. There were s...
- 38 plants
- 111 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Vegetable & Fruit garden

Zone 6b I started planting a few herbs in pots for my husband's cooking in 2003. After a couple of years we decided to make a small kitchen garden for the ...
- 13 plants
- 137 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
Welcome garden

Zone 6b This is the garden area to the right (north) side of the front walk. When we moved here in 1987 it was originally a narrow area foundation planting...
- 169 plants
- 379 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
xxx DH's Rose Collection xxx garden

Zone 6b My DH likes roses and wanted to grow some when he started gardening when he came home from the military in 2004. Of course, he knew just about noth...
- 13 plants
- 22 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
[Archived] Outside Container 2008 garden

Zone 6b These are my pot and container plantings that I have in various places around the yard during the summer. They include everything from hanging bask...
- 28 plants
- 30 journals
- 0 faves
- 0 comments
[Archived] 2009 Winter Sowing garden

Zone 6b My winter sowing experience has officially begun on the Winter Solstice 2008. This will be my first year to try winter sowing, but I hear that it c...
- 133 plants
- 464 journals
- 6 faves
- 2 comments

Swansea, MA

United States 6b

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I love to grow

Different and unusual perennials hardy to zone 6 - Herbs and medicinal plants - Plants that attract Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds and other birds - Plants that fit my "Heritage Garden" where they native to or have a name withor related to Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Celtic such as Irish Moss, English Daisies, Aquilegia "Leprechaun's Gold"