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hellohouse

hellohouse's Frontyard garden

Garden Type: Frontyard | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Clay

When we closed on Hello House in June 2005, the front yard was pretty bare. The grass was decent (nicer than it’s been recently), but the stone planters were gone from the front of the house, there were no urns, and the only plants were four shaped yews (yugh!).

Since then, we’ve:
+ dug up the yews
+ replaced the stone planters and urns
+ made a nice, curvy garden bed
+ made a little bed on the other side of the stoop
+ planted a hinoki
+ planted a serviceberry
+ planted a boxwood and 2 peiris japonica
+ planted sweet woodruff and yellow stonecrop
+ planted astible, goldenrod, coreopsis, jacob’s ladder, and other stuff
+ transplanted speedwell and alpine columbine from the backyard

Jef and I take turns designing plant arrangements for the urns on our stoop walls. This is my year, and the urns are now full of white bacopa, blue flossflower, orange symphony, and icicles.

The ivy we planted in the planter boxes last fall died, so we’ll have to replant those this summer.

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Plantings

  • Cranesbill

    Cranesbill AVAILABLE FOR SWAP

    Geranium

    Transplanted in Jun 2007 Our neighbor lets her garden run wild, so her p...

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    • Very Happy

  • Hinoki (Japanese Cypress)

    Hinoki (Japanese Cypress)

    Chamaecyparis obtusa

    Planting Out in 2007

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    • Neutral

  • Yellow Stonecrop

    Yellow Stonecrop AVAILABLE FOR SWAP

    Sedum nuttallianum raf.

    Planting Out in 2007 This makes up half the groundcover in the front...

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  • Sweet Woodruff

    Sweet Woodruff

    Galium odoratum

    Planting Out in 2007

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    • Very Happy

  • Fireworks Goldenrod

    Fireworks Goldenrod

    Solidago rugosa

    Planting Out in 2007

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    • Very Happy

  • Alpine Columbine

    Alpine Columbine AVAILABLE FOR SWAP

    Aquilegia alpina

    Transplanted in 2007 Evidently this is a full-sun plant, because it'...

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    • Neutral

  • Creeping Phlox

    Creeping Phlox

    Phlox stolonifera

    Planting Out in 2007

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  • Boxwood

    Boxwood

    Buxus

    Sown in 2007

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  • Serviceberry Tree

    Serviceberry Tree

    Amelanchier canadensis

    Planting Out in Aug 2005

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    • Unhappy

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