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Gaidig's Front Yard garden
Plantings (27)
Progress Journal (18)
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We are renters, so we haven’t wanted to invest much in our yard. We arrived to a legacy of a fifty year old white dogwood covered in ivy, a Japanese magnolia, two huge camellias – one white and one variegated, a leggy rose bush, some holly bushes, and some vinca, violets, and lariope, with the occasional stray daffodil, hyacinth, and day lily. The first year, we removed 11 lawn bags of ivy from the dogwood. I pruned the rose bush, cut out the mulberry bush, encouraged the lariope to grow as a mass rather than a line, and otherwise mostly performed maintenance. I encouraged a Rose of Sharon on the side to grow large. Last fall, I planted daffodils, crocuses, and blue bells. They all came up nicely this spring. This afternoon, I planted some peacock orchids.
Plantings
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Crocus, Jiant Remebrance
Crocus vernus
Planting Out on 11 Oct 08 "Big violet-blue blooms."
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Crocus, Jiant Jeanne D'Arc
Crocus vernus
Planting Out on 11 Oct 08 "Pure white with orange anthers."
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Crocus, Jiant Flower Record
Crocus vernus
Planting Out on 11 Oct 08 "Purplish-blue with a silvery gloss."
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Crocus, Jiant Yellow Mammoth
Crocus vernus
Planting Out on 11 Oct 08 "Bright golden yellow blooms."
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Crocus, Jiant Pickwick
Crocus vernus
Planting Out on 11 Oct 08 "Violet stripes on white."
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Early Snow Glories
Chionodoxa forbesii
Planting Out on 11 Oct 08 "Eash bulb produces many beautiful sky-blue, wh...
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Iris, Discovery Dutch
Iris x hollandica
Planting Out on 06 Oct 08 I've never planted an iris before that was a bu...
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Peacock Orchid
Acidanthera bicolor
Planting Out on 16 Jun 08 In raised bed beside the front door, partially ...
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Giant Yellow Jonquils
Narcissus
Planting Out in Oct 2007
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Bluebells
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Planting Out in Oct 2007
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Crocus
Crocus vernus
Planting Out in Oct 2007
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Azalea
Rhododendron
This azalea has bright pink blooms. It is kind...
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White Camellia
Camellia japonica
This camellia is probably as old as the house, ...
- 3 journals
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Dogwood
Cornus florida
This dogwood is probably as old as the house. ...
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Japanese Magnolia
Magnolia liliiflora
I think I need to trim some of the lowest branc...
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Unidentified Bushes - pleagued with white fungus
These bushes form much of our hedges in the bac...
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Holly Bushes
Ilex
These holly bushes have green berries.
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Extra Prickly Holly
Ilex
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Liriope
Liriope
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Rose of Sharon
Hibiscus syriacus
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Variegated Cemellia
Camellia japonica
Variegated fuschia & white.
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Rose Bush
Rosa
This rose was very leggy and had never been pru...
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Vinca
Vinca
There was a tiny bit of this in our garden when...
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Small leafed bush
I know that this is a very common bush, I just ...
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Thorny bush
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Nandina
Nandina domestica
I have a lot of this in my garden, in front and...
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Mulberry
Callicarpa americana
These are quite invasive in our yard.
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