gardenbs
Member since: Jun 11 | Last seen: Feb 13 | Years gardening: 35
My garden in Sequim, started about 4.5 years ago. We have an acre lot on a down-facing slope, which is a wooded area filled with natives like;Douglas & Grand firs,cedars,Ash, Alders,maples,and Madrone trees. After all the excavating for the house, the land had been beaten up and many trees removed. My long term plan for our property was to restore the outer most areas to a more native look again. The challenge was working with the many levels that resulted from the placement of the house on the land. I had no idea this was going to be so challenging for gardening. Many retaining walls were built, for holding the land and consequently became areas for individual gardens. I had never designed a garden from the ground up on raw land. The real challenge and it remains to be to this day however, is the clay soil! How could that be, here on a beautiful hill in the Olympic Mt.range, clay? What? This was what I had at my home back in California!
Well, almost five years later, the understory plant life is returning under the large Douglas firs; salal, Salmonberry, Oceanspray, wild blackberry,swamp rose, Oregon grape, Flowering Currant,strawberries, lady fern,sword fern,hardy geranium,(practically a weed, and of course the grasses, dandelions and thistles.I am thrilled to see them flourish as they continue to take back what was once theirs.
TO be continued.
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Zone 8b This garden tends to be wet most of the time. It is the lower tier of our backyard terraced section. We live at the bottom of a hill, so we are get...
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Zone 8b Small garden with a tiered wall behind the Hazel tree and roses. The tier has a trellis with climbing Clematis, flanked by lavender plants; there a...
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Zone 8b I am combining three gardens( Driveway Steps Run, Hyrdrangea-Pieris Drive Garden, and Pieris-Boxwood Jump Garden) that are off our upper driveway i...
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Zone 8b This garden is located on the south side of our lower driveway, sharing the space with the South Tree garden.
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Zone 8b This garden was established in 2006 from scratch. We built our new home, on a wooded site. After all the excavating and all the dirt fill brought i...
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Zone 8b These two slopes are the end areas of our property, which steeply drops into the ‘ditch’, a water basin for runoff. Very difficult to k...
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Zone 8b Not sure how this came to be the name of the south side of our frontyard. Our driveway divides the yards in half. It is the part of the front yard ...
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The Coming & Going Daisy garden
Zone 8b This garden was completely done over this October (2011). This a is the beginning of my reducing some of the work in caring for an acre of land Pla...
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Top of the East Hill Gardens garden
Zone 8b Combining the ‘South East Native Garden’ and the ‘Hyrangea East Gardens’ to the_ ‘Top of the East Hill Gardens.’
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West Lawn Bed -Lower & Raised garden
Zone 8b Combined ‘West Lawn Garden’ and ‘West Lawn Raised Bed Garden’, to West Lawn Bed-Lower & Raised.
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