Waretrop's Garden After Ten Years (pic heavy)

[waretrop]

I was in business for 27 years before retiring to our 2.5 acre piece of paradise. My hubby and I love to garden. We have been on many many garden tours including our county wide one, 2 years now.

Doesn't look like much but if you were here you would love it. Our whole front yard is on a hill so we made it gardens walkways and bridges.

Front Dappled Willow

Front entrance. Morning Glory is beginning to grow on it. Must get it in earlier next year.

Front future rose gardens

Front cement tortoise

Mailboxes throughout the property for tools used in that area.



Next up the back, we call it the up garden...

 

[MaryMary]

Mailboxes throughout the property for tools used in that area.

That is an awesome idea!! No trucking them back and forth from the shed, and keeps them out of the elements. That royal blue gazing ball is beautiful. Waretrop, you are going to be a bad influence, I can tell. "Great, more stuff I have to mow around" is already a popular refrain at my house!

And ooh, what are the bright pink flowers behind the tortoise?

 

[Esther Knapicius]

love your hostas

 

[waretrop]

Oh yes I do @Esther Knapicius . Love, Love, Love....

 

[MaryMary]

Waretrop, @Esther Knapicius is a woman of few words. (But lots of pictures! .) She meant she loves your hostas. She probably has at least half the same varieties in her garden!


Esther ... I love it when I get to yank your chain a little. I never yank the chain of anyone I don't like.

 

[waretrop]

@MaryMary So The pink flower is Mountain Pinks, I think. With a little octopus flower, Campanula, mixed in with it. LOL

Amsonia and our little Larch behind them.

Annabelle Leigh...She is very well known....

Bike

Contorted Black Locust. One of my favorite trees

Entrance to the "Up Gardens"

This year we added blue water to our fountain. Usually we just put some floating water plants in it.

Hammock and umbrella by the Larch Tree.

Heavenly Bamboo. Did nothing for 4 years and then it woke up...

Koto No Ito Maple Tree

Koto No Ito Maple Tree leaf...starts out thicker and thins down to threads.

My old oak tree with mini hosta and mini iris around it. nothing is allowed to be more than 5 inches in this garden. If that happens, they get kicked out and relocated...

 

[Esther Knapicius]

LOL. @MaryMary . guess she could have read it that way. Yes, I have a ton of hostas, as can be seen on my thread. and that was not yanking my chain. it is alright.

 

[waretrop]

@Esther Knapicius I miss read your post...I think I have over 100 different named hosta. One of my favorites is 'Pocket Full Of Sunshine'

 

[Esther Knapicius]

that is a nice number. will have to count mine. but I do know I have over 100,000 bulbs.

 

[waretrop]

Wow..I have a small area that we call "lily valley " that has many bulbs and I am not counting them. Lol

 

[DrCase]

It sure looks like you put some time in ... It looks nice

 

[waretrop]

Here are some shots from longer distances of the up gardens.

Not my house but my garden...

My husband lost his friend in Nam. He was a copter pilot and they never found him. So I had this piece of steel made for him. It has been getting good and rusty for 7 months. We added Nam boots and helmet. I will make a small plaque with his info in it one day.