Packed with Beauty, Part 1

Michigan gardener plants tightly for maximum impact

Today ’s photograph come from Joanna Kenyon from Owosso , Michigan . really , her garden is so awesome that we ’re going to spend two twenty-four hours on it ! So revel today , and come back tomorrow for part 2 .

I started the garden in 2004 . My soon - to - be husband had buy the household because it was decently next door to his patronage . locating . locating . Location . I started with a little garden beneath a fir tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the front grounds using plants I moved from my garden in Dimondale , Michigan , and it just mushroom from there . Expanding the garden in any appreciable way block 4 - 5 year ago . Now it ’s all right tuning and rearrange plant .

It was a challenge to incorporate a big factory building into the landscape , although it would have been even more difficult had we not been the owners of both properties . The building is 10 foot high in some place , 20 invertebrate foot high in others , and 80 - 100 feet long . The mill wall is 10 paces from our side room access . It is also the north side of the building , which can present its own challenge . The land is fairly heavy stiff and is fuddled most of the metre . It was a moment of brainchild when we think about deck the side of the building with sunshine sculpture . It really integrate the construction into the landscape .

Learning to garden along this wall is a lot of trail and misplay , a lot of planting something and construe if it grows . The paries reflect loose , which attain a big difference of opinion . I had gardened under Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree spectre before , which is much more hard .

I sometimes ignore schematic Wisdom of Solomon . I planted a clematis in my full shade and wet muck , and it has grown like a weed , even though it supposedly needs full Dominicus and well drained dirt . I endeavor to imbed thing that will grow in the soil I have rather than endeavor to restore the soil for the plant . Again a lot of trial and wrongdoing . I move stuff around a lot . I have an Annabelle hydrangea ( Hydrangea arborescens ‘ Annabelle ‘ , Zones 3–9 ) that I ’ve moved 4 - 5 times . It is lastly happy .

My other strategy is to grow things really shut down together . I do n’t pay much attention to spacing instructions . I just cram thing all together and see what happens . This really makes weed much less of a headache . The weeds do n’t really have much of a fortune . The downside is that a lot of thinning go on as plants turn and crowd each other out . But I love the crowd look .

A way to incorporate the factory next door into the landscape .

A view of my garden was turned into an artwork puff by my sister .

I wish to engraft a form of plants close together to keep grass at bay .

A scene between our house and our neighbor ’s drive . This is the north side , and hostas are a primary feature .

We found an one-time urban center light C. W. Post and repurposed it for the garden .

Another look down the northward side of the theatre .

We have an prowess bike competition every year in Owosso . This was my entry a few years back , and it is now prominently featured in the garden .

This outbuilding , which we dearly call the Hog Pen , is where my husband keeps his bike . The forestage in front of the door serve as the political program for my Word ’s marriage ceremony in June .

A in effect vista of the manufactory next door . Sometimes hoi polloi think we manufacture those Lord’s Day !

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