VeraMarie

VeraMarie

Member since: May 08 | Years gardening: 40 Organic gardener

Although I have 40 years of gardening experience, I’m not consistent enough to be very successful. I grew up with gardens, because my father loved vegetable gardening, especially since he had lots of kids to do the grunt work. He loved to try new things – including okra when we lived in Florida and kohlrabi after we moved to Washington state.
I prefer flower gardens, and I’m not very good at it, so I’ve got just a few containers of daylilies, a bed of lavender and a raised flower bed across the front of the house that usually houses geraniums. I want to put together a kitchen herb garden on my deck and perhaps I’ll try my hand at something different in my flower beds if I don’t fail completely.

Gardens

  • VeraMarie's Flowers under the Prune Tree garden

    Flowers under the Prune Tree garden

    Zone 8b This Italian Prune tree has been a problem since we moved in 19 years ago. It was surrounded by black plastic covered with beauty bark that had com...

    • 1 plants
    • 8 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 6 comments
  • VeraMarie's Front Porch Raised Bed garden

    Front Porch Raised Bed garden

    Zone 8b This is a raised bed we built several years ago. It wraps around the front porch facing south. In the summer it gets full sun for most of the day. ...

    • 7 plants
    • 21 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • VeraMarie's Kitchen Herb garden

    Kitchen Herb garden

    Zone 8b Trying something new - kitchen herbs in containers on the deck to keep the slugs off. I plan to start with a single pot in a stand and three basic ...

    • 3 plants
    • 11 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
  • VeraMarie's Those Pots Against the Fence garden

    Those Pots Against the Fence garden

    Zone 8b I love the look of daylilies and a few years ago managed to scrape together enough to buy some big plastic pots. I planted daylilies in every other...

    • 1 plants
    • 4 journals
    • 1 faves
    • 1 comments

Bellingham, WA

United States United States 8b


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flowers, herbs


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