From the category archives:
Been hearing a lot lately about curb gardens – a book in the works, articles in major newspapers – so I thought it was time to compile the stories about them, with links and examples – here. I’ll be adding to it because, well, it’s an example of very public bits of turfgrass that are being turned into GARDENS, and they’re just so much fun to see.
Now enjoy a couple of cool examples from the City of Gardens – Buffalo, NY, of course.
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Here’s my Garden Blogger Bloom Day post and I’ve gotta say I sure love August. Not a popular sentiment here in the Mid-Atlantic.
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Click here for more photos curb gardens that’ll knock the socks off the neighbors.
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Next time the news makes me uptight I’m going to meditate on this scene, taken at dusk yesterday at Brookside Gardens.
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Happy Gardenblogger Bloom Day, everyone! No surprise to readers that I’m breaking the rules, again, by showing not my own garden but someone else’s. This time it’s Brookside Gardens, the public garden in my county – so maybe it DOES count as mine? Close enough. It’s a glorious garden and although the most bloom-filled part of it was closed for a wedding the day I visited, it’s a big garden with lots of photo-worthy spots. See the lucky bride below – lucky because the weather was gor-jus.
And just to play along with the intention of Bloom Day, here’s what’s blooming in my own garden right now: hellebores, bleeding heart, spireas, Celandine poppy, dogwood, doublefile viburnum, cherry laurel, solomon’s seal, mazus, and gobs of bulbs.
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What do you do when you have large new borders to fill and would rather not A, spend much money or B, wait forever for them to look good? Steal like crazy from other parts of the garden – if you’re lucky to have an old garden that has plenty of divisions and too-big castaways to spare.
So as I wrote about on GardenRant, landscape architect Billy Goodnick drew me this cool plan for my ex-lawn – greatly enlarging my existing borders and reducing the lawn-like area to not much more than a path. So, where to start? First I used stakes and then oran
ge marking paint to create the new border – that’s easy enough. But now it’s mid-March and time to fill ‘em up.
The first photo is of the right-hand border (seen from the house and also on Billy’s sketch). You see the orange lines and the junipers I planted there yesterday. They spent the winter potted-up on my front porch, and seem to tolerate being moved every spring to the back yard to make room for Fun with Annuals on my front porch.
Also on the right are two large, severely cut-back grasses of some sort (varieties of Miscanthus, now forgotten), which were too big for their spots somewhere else, and I envision them draping 
gracefully over this large pot that will be trying to fulfill Billy’s vision of a focal point. Then behind all that are 3 year-old Itea ‘Little Henry’ which don’t look like much yet and I’ve decided I need 3 more of same to fill the area and mimic the kind of massing Billy suggests. What’ll go along the front of the border is anybody’s guess at this point.
And any ideas for what to put in the big pot?
Then in the lower photo here you see the lefthand border where I’ve moved the full-grown spirea to another focal point, and the enlarged border now jumps over the dry streambed (something I’d never have thought to do). To fill up the new space I planted some large carexes (including some that are blizzard-battered but presumaby capable of recovering), lots of smaller ‘Ice Dance’ carexes, and a flowing mass of lamb’s ears along the new edge of the border. The stepping stones WILL be moved and relaid to follow the center of the new lawn-like path through the garden.
So, any more ideas for filling up new borders for the Impatient Gardener?
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