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kightp's Backyard border garden

Garden Type: Backyard | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Combination I'm Organic!

Two long fence borders – one with most-of-the-day sun and one in deep shade – hold a haphazard array of plants that please me: An akebia vine, borage to attract the bees, a thicket of raspberry canes, assorted perennials and herbs and whatever annuals strike my fancy each year. The sunny side usually gets sunflowers; the shady border holds red-hot poker and a rather invasive Italian arum. We won’t talk about the English ivy, or the bamboo that creeps in under the fence from my east neighborh’s yard.

Plantings

Native raspberries

Rubus strigosus

Sown on 01 Apr 06 Given by friends who know my passion for raspbe...
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Chocolate vine

Akebia quinata

Sown on 01 May 01 I'm training this along the weathered wooden fe...
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Chocolate vine

Akebia quinata

Sown on 01 May 01 Planted to soften the eastern fence line, and f...
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Hybrid lupines

Lupinus

In the continuing effort to woo bees and other...
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Trumpet vine

Campsis radicans

The trumpet vine was among the aged plants alre...
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Lacecap hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla

Another product of an earlier gardener, the hyd...
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Star jasmine

Trachelospermum jasminoides

When I moved into the house in 2000, this was a...
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Borage

Borago officinalis

Planted to attract bees, and for the delicate, ...
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Red-hot poker

Kniphofia uvaria

Adopted from a friend who was removing it from ...
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