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alleyyooper
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: Carouselbutterfly's keeping Alley skinny project. |
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Our gardens started in 1999 when we both were working. the start was just a small place in the back yard about 4 feet wide and 6 feet long in a cresent moon shape. Since the back yard as all the yards are clay I dug a big hole then filled it up with horse manure from the horse farm that was then next door. I then added good top soil from our woods about six inches thick. It has grown from that small plot to over 3800 square feet today. Yes I dug all the gardens out by hand and back filled with horse manure till all was gone when the horses left in late 2003. after that I just back filled with woods dirt. I admit last year I used a tractor and front loader to build the bee garden.
The north garden. Are little start started here at the top of the picture to the left of the giants foot prints near the Quince bush.
All to the right of the foot prints is our south garden. A 2002 project as was the grass garden and the woods garden.
A sucklent I Like very well as a ground cover but they struggle in this area.
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Gosh a lot of hard work has gone into that Al!!!  What a pity you have clay soil to contend with but, in saying that, your garden is a real credit to you.
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Yeah looks superb Al. I must say those footprints are very eye-catching. Where did you get your hands on them? A close up pic of the pathway would be great. Have you done a count of how many plant species you have?
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Oh gosh The giants foot prints came from a farm supply store that sold garden supplys and things during the spring rush only. They went out of busness and we expanded the gardens so wanted more of them. Now two places in Michigan has them Lowes the home improvement place and Wal- Mart has them.
I have no Idea as to how many or what not we have in the gardens. We shop for what we like, (the joke is they follow us home.) then I dig a garden for them or there is a bit of room left from the last digging which I admit isn't often.
Here is another favorite of mine. I found some wild in the woods but will not dig it up for fear of destroying it.
Lobelia Cardinal plant.
Bloom of a purple Lobelia.
I like this Queen Victory Lobelia but after several atempts to grow it and failing I have gave up.
A blue Lobelia.
The red one with fall leaves.
Bye the way we are not into latin names for the plants. We are common people so comman names work very nicely for us.
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Thank goodness for that Al!! I'm not into Latin names either - can never remember them or get my tongue around them. 
I really love your Lobelia Cardinal Plant - it's gorgeous.
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These are wild growing Phlox down by the creek. They came for nowhere and bloom every May.
This is one of my favorite July views of the south garden. The lily is George Marshall.
A late june view of the south garden is also an eye pleaser. Maltese Cross in the fore ground.
Day lilies Pandoras Box. We get most of our Day Lilies from Stone Cottage Gardens stonecottagegardens.com
Kare likes these Canterbury Bells.
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I must say your garden is a joy to behold Al. And those lilies, wow  . Is that a small bridge I see in the the top photo of your last post?
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Pandoras Box - must look out for that one as it's spectacular!! Kare has good taste as I like Canterbury Bells too and Phlox has to be one of my all time favourites. Come to think of it there aren't many flowers I don't like!! 
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Yes that was a bridge I construsted by splitting a log in two then putting the halves together. Served very well for about 3 years. Then the floods of May 2004 came and washed it away. I didn't get around to making a new one till in Oct of 2004 after tireing of going farther into the wood to cross a bridge ther one of my pups didn't like.
She doesn't like the new bridge either and refuses to cross it perfurring to run along the bank to the old bridge back in the woods. Now my old choclate labby doesn't use the bridge offten either because she just plain loves being in the water. For her to use a bridge the ice has to be at a point that it won't hold her weight. She don't like the ice breaking on her.
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This Pink Scabosos is one of many in our gardens. If dead headed properly it blooms again and again nearly all summer long. Our honey bees also favor it too.
This Jacobs Ladder trives very nicely in the shade of the woods garden.
This Lepards Bane does well in the shade as well as the ones we have in full sun.
After the polar panzys this Primrose is one of the earliest bloomers in the gardens.
These Polar Panzys are the earliest bloomers int the gardens. they come in many colors from blue to yellow. They do self sow in spots where you may not want them so be ready to weed them out.
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These Daffies are not in a garden, rather just pop up out in the front yard.
Another of my favorite Dianthus is this Artic Star.
These Corydalis are spreaders and threaten to take over the gardens. Do very nicely in the shade as well. Thanks to our winters one comes along and nearly wipes them all out saving us the work of weeding them out.
Due to my bringing dirt from the woods we have Jack in The Pulpits in our gardens. This is what one sees under the leaf roof.
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Jack in The Pulpit gone to seed.
I like this Evening Primrose, oh so yellow.
Daylily Happy returns.
Delphiniums are alway nice in the garden.
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Daylily Black Eyed Susan. Appears as if I cut the top off both pictures 
A Wegulia, Minuet.
Daylily Baltimore Oriole.
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So much variety Al. You must never get tired of looking at your garden
Are the daylilies in the top two photos the same variety? They looked different I thought? Those daylilies are really something else!
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Oh My yes they are different, I need to look up the names of them as we now have so many I can't keep track of them. We have tried to plant flowers that very in bloom times and colors. We do how ever have a couple of gardens that are specialty gardens such as the grass garden, the lily garden (Asiatic & orential types) And the bee garden, mostly early spring and late fall bloomers. Fall bloomers with color are in short supply though.
From earlier this spring, Bleeding hearts.
Polor Pansy, one of the many colors.
Strawberry Candy Coral Bells.
Foam Flower.
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