anelson's Thugs gone wild garden
Garden Type: Verge | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Clay | Established: 1940 | Organic
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This is a terrace above a retaining wall on the east side of the house, behind the lower rockery. We dont see this part of the yard from the house, and when we moved in it had gone completely wild. I would leave it that way, but our neighbor, who does has a view of the mess from her living room, keeps complaining to us about how it looks. I have weeded the whole thing several times, uncovering the remnants of what used to be a perennial garden, and added what I hoped were tough perennials that would hold their own. However the deep rooted perennial weeds come back each time worse than before. The soil is clay, wet and mucky in winter, bone dry and brick-like by late summer. There is no easy way to water it. Our current strategy is to add fast growing drought tolerant shrubs which we hope will soon grow big enough to shade out the weeds, and to encourage the invasive ornamental types.
anelson's Thugs gone wild garden is an outdoor organic garden located in Seattle, United States and currently contains 10 plants.
This is a Verge garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 8b. It has mainly Clay soil and receives Full Sun light.Photos
Plantings
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Mahonia nervosa
Transplanted on 05 Mar 11
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Cornus stolonifera var. occidentalis
Transplanted on 05 Mar 11
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Carex flagellifera
Transplanted on 23 Sep 06 a civilizing influence
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Phalaris arundinacea
Established in 2004 I keep working at getting rid of this weedy nat...
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Leucanthemum x superbum
Established in 2004 I leave em be most places even though they are ...
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Phygelius aequalis
Established in 2004 This big old plant is kind of ugly most of the...
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Romneya coulteri
Established in 2004 I love this plant. I wish it would spread more,...
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Centranthus
Established in 2004 this is the perfect place for this pretty but i...
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Euphorbia amygdaloides
Established in 2004 They smell bad. They are overused in instituti...
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Ligustrum vulgare
Established in 2004 growing in clay soil, in the shade, never water...
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