rainymountain's 8. Road garden
Garden Type: Flower | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Don't Know | Established: 2008 | Organic
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Road garden runs East to West roughtly, the fence divides it from Beyond the Pale Garden and a wide road allowance which slopes slightly south and is sandy. Road garden is 24’ long x 3’ deep. At the east end is a huge spruce tree which shades 6ft of the bed, depriving that area of deep snow cover in the winter and rain in the summer. The west end of Road Garden ends at the parking area fence and is contiguous with Drive Garden which runs at right angles to it.
This is another trench dug garden, which was stream bed at the west end but had some soil mostly around rotted tree trunks. About 10 years ago there was a large old maple growing midway down this garden. Imported soil filled most of the trench.
This is a very sunny garden getting sun from early morning to early afternoon and a burst in late afternoon at mid-summer. The fence provides shade, good for plants that like their roots in the shade.
This garden gets manure and compost annually, and an involuntary mulch of spruce needles and debris.
Photos: from east to west, west to east 14 Apr 09.
Located in Revelstoke BC, Canada, rainymountain's 8. Road garden is an outdoor organic garden that currently contains 48 plants.
Situated in a Full Sun position, this Flower garden is located in USDA Zone 5b.Photos
Plantings
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Rose Campion Day 302
Lychnis coronaria
Transplanted on 26 Jul 12 East end, near Knautia, east of Peony
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Foeniculum vulgare
Sown on 12 Apr 12 Seeds from DD
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Fosteriana Tulips Yellow Empress
Tulip fosteriana
Sown on 13 Oct 11 Pure yellow some with very faint red or green f...
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Tulipa
Sown in Oct 2011 Angelique, pink, double late tulip, in a clump ...
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Rosa
Transplanted on 13 Sep 11 A piece of a bigger shrub growing next door out...
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Pisum sativum
Sown on 15 May 11 Planted where R. Night Owl was at east end agai...
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Lilium
Sown on 03 Nov 10 Oriental Lily Casablanca bulbs planted at east ...
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Oriental Lily Golden Splendour
Lilium
Purchased on 29 Oct 10 end of Road by Berberis
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Anemone tomentosa
Sown on 29 Jul 10
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Viola adunca
Established on 29 Mar 10 Two clumps situated beside bench under Hydrange...
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Galanthus nivalis
Established on 14 Mar 10 Planted themselves, near to Berberis Rosy Glow,...
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Anemone blanda
Sown on 28 Sep 09 Planted either side of blue grass, and next to ...
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Iris xiphium
Sown on 28 Sep 09 Starting at east end, mostly towards the back. ...
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Rumex sanguineus var. sanguineus
Established on 11 Jul 09 In front of the Berberis, was originally in Eas...
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Heucerella
Sown on 04 Jun 09 At the east end, edge of path by Knautia
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Lilium
Sown on 28 Apr 09 Planted at the edge in a triangle between peony...
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Knautia macedonica
Purchased in Jun 2008 At east end.
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Hosta tardiana
Purchased on 31 Mar 08 Thick frosty blue leaves, slug resistant, vigor...
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Iris
Sown in 2007 At east end in with Michaelmas daisies, from Diane
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Clematis
Purchased in Jun 2007 Planted against the fence to the west of the pe...
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Lilium
Purchased on 11 Oct 06 Orange, west end.
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Lilium
Purchased on 11 Oct 06 Behind the berberis
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Trumpet Lily 'Emerald Temple' ?
Lilium
Purchased on 11 Oct 06 I think perhaps an emerald temple got in with t...
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Lilium
Sown on 11 Oct 06 Lime yellow interior, cool green exterior.
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Tulipa
Sown on 04 Oct 06
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Heuchera
Purchased on 03 Jun 06 By Rosa Glauca
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Liatris spicata
Purchased on 05 Apr 06 This has always bloomed well; photo 3 Aug 2009
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Lilium
Established on 05 Apr 06 The freebies were labeled as Renoir described a...
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Hosta
Purchased on 05 Apr 06 North of R. Graham Thomas This got moved in ?2...
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Catananche caerulea
Purchased in Mar 2006 Rona; I am hoping they will self-seed. Various ...
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Lilium
Established on 05 Mar 06 East of Rosa glauca, dark raspberry recurved.
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Geranium
Established in 2005 Planted in front of Rosa glauca
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Paeonia officinalis
Purchased in 2005 Bought it as 'Krinkled White', pink outer petal...
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Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
Sown in 2005 A tall deep purple-pink, these always bloom lat...
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Hemerocallis
Sown in 2005 So far haven't tracked down what this is - I th...
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Hydrangea paniculata 'Brussels Lace'
Hydrangea paniculata
Purchased in 2005 From nursery at Swan Lake, Kelowna; saw it in b...
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Vinca minor
Established in 2004 Planted on south west side of spruce as ground ...
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Clematis viticella 'Polish Spirit'
Clematis viticella
Purchased in 2004
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Sedum
Purchased in 2004
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Sedum cyaneum
Purchased on 26 May 04 Planted on south indent near rosa glauca
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Stachys byzantina
Purchased on 26 May 04 There are two kinds of lamb's ears at the east ...
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Berberis thunbergii
Established on 25 May 04 Marbled pinks and cream on new growth, old grow...
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Sedum
Purchased on 10 May 04 Purchased from Steve Van der Meer's, 'wonderful...
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Rosa glauca
Established on 14 Apr 04 Rosa glauca - species Central Southern Europe m...
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Lilium
Sown on 04 Apr 04 White with a faint pinkness at the edge of the ...
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Sedum spurium
Purchased in 2003 This was its original position but has never th...
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Festuca ovina glauca
Purchased in 2003 It has some seedlings in the path as well now.
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Sedum spectabile
Sown in 2003 Dogwood
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