laurieann's 'Strike My Fancy' garden
Garden Type: Frontyard | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Combination | Established: 2010 | Organic
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I’ve decided to call this the ‘Strike My Fancy’ Garden as I seem to be planting things that, well, strike my fancy, as opposed to having any sort of formal plan. It will be interesting to see how it all grows in. I may be moving things about next year…
My goal was to plant this area with lots of interesting color and texture as the backdrop is so very, very green. I also tucked some of the plantings in the wooded area outside of my border to help break up the mass of green.
The soil is clay and sand and was covered with tufts of grass and lots of weeds. It butts up against the woods so there are cedar trees, lots and lots of salal (which grows like a weed with underground runners – ugh! – I can’t believe they sell it at the local nursery!!), pieris, huckleberry and ferns. I dug up all of the weeds and grass and cut the salal back as much as I could. I dug the dirt down and wheel- barrowed (uphill!) loads and loads of new soil.
I collected large rocks from around the property to create a border between the woods and the new garden.
Pics:
1 – March 2010
2,3,4 – July 2010
An outdoor organic garden located in Bainbridge Island, WA, United States, laurieann's 'Strike My Fancy' garden currently contains 23 plants.
This is a Frontyard garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 7b. It has mainly Combination soil and receives Partial Sun light.Photos
Plantings
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Hebe Anomala
Established on 15 Oct 11 took 8 cuttings from the original plant
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Hebe
Established on 15 Oct 11 took 3 cuttings
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Euphorbia
Established on 15 Oct 11 took 3 cuttings
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Hebe
Transplanted on 12 Apr 11 Purchased two plants at plant sale last fall - ...
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Euphorbia
Transplanted on 12 Apr 11 purchased at a fall plant sale and overwinterrd...
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Cupressus macrocarpa
Transplanted on 12 Apr 10 transplanted from a large pot on the deck. I p...
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Geranium 'Samobor Mourning Widow'
Geranium
Transplanted on 08 Apr 10 half gallon $9.99
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Japanese Sweet Flag 'Variegatus'
Acorus gramineus
Transplanted on 08 Apr 10 Purchased a 4" pot for $4.99 that was literally...
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Hebe pimeleoides
Transplanted on 24 Mar 10 purchased in a 1/2 gallon pot. Pics: 1 - Ma...
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Hebe
Transplanted on 24 Mar 10 purchased in quart size pot
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Hebe Anomala
Transplanted on 24 Mar 10 purchased in a 1/2 gallon pot
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Hebe
Purchased on 21 Mar 10 Checked out a new nursery while out running err...
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Thymus citriodorus
Transplanted on 18 Mar 10 4" pots - evergreen creeping thyme - smells hea...
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Pachysandra
Transplanted on 18 Mar 10 4" pots
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Phormium tenax
Transplanted on 18 Mar 10 One of my favorite landscape plants. I have to...
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Vaccinium corymbosum
Transplanted on 13 Mar 10 I puchased a 1 gallon size. It is a lovely pur...
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Corylopsis spicata
Transplanted on 13 Mar 10 pics: 1 - March 2010 2 - July 2010
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Carex secta tenuiculmis
Transplanted on 03 Mar 10
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Euphorbia
Transplanted on 03 Mar 10 purchased 4" pots Pics: 1 - March 2010 2 - J...
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Leucothoe
Transplanted on 03 Mar 10 purchased 1 gallon pots
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Salix purpurea var. nana
Transplanted on 03 Mar 10 *purchased 1 gallon pot
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Dogwood "Eddie's White Wonder"
Cornus nuttallii
Transplanted on 01 Nov 09 hard to see it in this pic, but it has lots of ...
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Hydrangea macrophylla
Established on 01 Jan 97 technically across the sidewalk from the "Strik...
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