Finishing up the Backyard Planting

When last we left the garden it looked a little something like this:

Which is all well and good until your eye finds its way to the back left corner and sees the lonely little barren fountain with no plants around it. Here's a close up:

So sad! We did some research and figured out that perhaps the grasses that were planted there were not happy about the lack of sunlight in the back corner. Also, we should have trimmed back all the dead pieces much sooner. The combination of those two factors led to this sporadic regrowth and this general sad look. So we got some more grasses, ones that will hopefully tolerate the shade better and also regrow more predictably.

The tall grasses are Karl Foerster Feather Read grasses which will eventually grow 5-6 feet hight and have purplish-bronze feathery flowers on top. The three smaller grasses in front of the fountain are Silvery Sunproof Lilyturf which are a striped light green and dark green that will also get a spikey lilac flower at some point.

We also had one dead maiden grass on the other side of the back of the garden which also looked quite sad.

Again the lack of a huge amount of direct sunlight in the other back corner limited our plant choices. We finally settled on a Camellia Japonica or "Kramer's Supreme" which will bloom with HUGE (and I mean really, really big) dark red flowers in the early spring. Too bad we need to wait almost a year to see them, but this plant will do well with the light we have to give it in this corner.

I also found a nice potted flowering plant to put on the table near the bench to help further hide the AC hookup lines that go into the sunroom

So after another round of de-weeding and re-mulching I'm proud to say that the backyard is pretty much done! However there is still more planting in our future, as we have almost finished grouting the front yard and after the grout and the tile and sealed we will be looking to fill 4 huge planters we bought at Costco last week. Since that area also does not get much light I see some big Hollies and perhaps some Azaleas and/or rhododendrons in our near future.

Comments

[min hus]

Wow, your garden is GORGEOUS!!!

[dana]

Hey thanks! I checked out your site and I love all your flowers--we need more flowers...i have no patience!