Fritillary
Jennifer
- Joined
- Oct 13, 2017
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- 2
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- Location
- Romeoville,Illinois
- Hardiness Zone
- 5
- Country
Hello! My name is Jennifer Bennett, and I live in Romeoville, which is about an hour from Chicago. I've joined this forum because I'd like to plan and plant a garden in my backyard, and I'm doing research. ^_^
I'd like to grow flowers for cutting and plants for natural dyeing. I am also imagining planting a number of different shrubs against the back of our house (it's so plain!) I am thinking of an osmanthus shrub, magnolia, peonies, lilac, and pussy willows. (All flowers I have loved since childhood!) If our subdivision's association allows, I'd like to use all or most of our yard for the dye plants, flowers, and maybe some vegetables.
I admire the formal gardens I see in magazines, complete with stepping-stones! I think that might be a bit challenging for me, a (hopeful) new gardener.
One major obstacle I don't know how to overcome, is the fact that we have a large population of rabbits and squirrels. They are so cute, but the rabbits nibble away our emerging bulbs, and the squirrels dig out our current container plants. I want to find a way to control them, without hurting them in any way!
I also am imagining a Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) in the middle of our yard.
We've had a lot of container plants, and we grow a lot of plants indoors, for many years, but we are running out of space in the sun! So I would like to make use of our backyard, which is currently just grass.
So those are my tentative plans! I think I may have gone on too long, so I'll sign off now! ^_^
~*Jennifer*~
I'd like to grow flowers for cutting and plants for natural dyeing. I am also imagining planting a number of different shrubs against the back of our house (it's so plain!) I am thinking of an osmanthus shrub, magnolia, peonies, lilac, and pussy willows. (All flowers I have loved since childhood!) If our subdivision's association allows, I'd like to use all or most of our yard for the dye plants, flowers, and maybe some vegetables.
I admire the formal gardens I see in magazines, complete with stepping-stones! I think that might be a bit challenging for me, a (hopeful) new gardener.
One major obstacle I don't know how to overcome, is the fact that we have a large population of rabbits and squirrels. They are so cute, but the rabbits nibble away our emerging bulbs, and the squirrels dig out our current container plants. I want to find a way to control them, without hurting them in any way!
I also am imagining a Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) in the middle of our yard.
We've had a lot of container plants, and we grow a lot of plants indoors, for many years, but we are running out of space in the sun! So I would like to make use of our backyard, which is currently just grass.
So those are my tentative plans! I think I may have gone on too long, so I'll sign off now! ^_^
~*Jennifer*~
Welcome to the forum, Fritillary!!
