snowgardener's Obelisk garden
Garden Type: Cottage | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Loam | Established: 2008 | Organic
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The obelisk is about 8 feet tall made from cedar and copper by my Dad and my husband. I love it and it is the centerpiece of this garden.
Here grows 3 of my 4 roses including the Abraham Darby and the miniature red rose shown in the pictures above. I also have my Gertrude Jeckyl rose in there. A Will Goodwin clematis grows on the obelisk and I intend to add another clematis this year.
The bed is surrounded by sidewalks and I put in a brick path to wind through as a short cut from the door sidewalk to the driveway sidewalk. I’m very fond of lavender an have a hedge of it growing along one side of the brick path.
Oriental lilies, rose campion, veronica, thread leaf coriopsis, scabiosa, reseeding annual poppies, reseeding annual love-in-a-mist, a daylily, chrysanthemum, and sedum are some of the other plants found in this area.
I should mention that I built this bed with the lasagna method about 5 years ago and it has been very healthy and nutrient rich ever since.
An outdoor organic garden located in Watertown, NY, United States, snowgardener's Obelisk garden currently contains 1 plants.
This is a Cottage garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 4b. It has mainly Loam soil and receives Full Sun light.Photos
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hstupno wrote:
Beautiful pictures! I too, love the David Austin roses. They must do well there in Watertown. I’m originally from southern-western NY state, south of Buffalo, so I know just how hard those lake-effect winters can be. Although I think here in Maine had a worse winter than NY did this year.
What is the “lasagna method” you used on the bed? I haven’t heard that term before and am curious.
Posted on 01 May 08 (about 5 years ago)
snowgardener wrote:
Oh, thank you so much!
A lasagna garden is where you build a bed by layering organic material, like a lasagna. You start directly over the grass by laying down layers of wet newspaper, or cardboard. Other layers could be grass clippings, compost, straw, manure, leaves, peat moss…anything you could add to a compost pile. It should add up to about 8" and then you just leave it to sit for a couple months. I made this garden in the fall and planted it in spring.
It saves you the labor of digging out grass and builds beautiful soil even over clay and rock.
Posted on 01 May 08 (about 5 years ago)
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