Flower beds

My flower beds are all at their peak right now, and even though it is a lot of work to keep everything watered and pruned, it’s worth it when I get to enjoy all these beautiful flowers. My yard is always a work in progress, and I am always adding flowers to, moving flowers from, changing around and mostly enlarging all these beds. Although I used to try and always have complementary color and texture combinations, with all the changes and additions I make every season, all my flower beds seem to inevitably become mixed borders of wild rainbow colors and textures, annuals and perennials, roses, groundcovers and flowering shrubs. I think I like them best this way. As always, click on any of the photos to view larger versions.

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Above is one end of a long, curving border I have at the edge of the front yard, along the fence line. In this area, I have coneflowers, red penta flowers, purple and red verbena, and burgundy vinca along with bishop’s weed.

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A huge section of mixed-color impatiens and begonias in the same border. My large snowball viburnum shrub provides shade for the impatiens.

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Curved border with birdbath and mixed annuals and perennials

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Verbena, lantana, gallardia, lilies, dianthus and more in a long, narrow rock wall flower bed at the base of a slope in the back yard. Evergreen dianthus cascades over the front of the wall.

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A tiny flower bed surrounding a lamp post in the front yard. Right now, I have hot pink petunias, coreopsis, dianthus, white coneflowers and a hanging pot of verbena here.

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This is a small triangular shaped flower bed surrounding another lamp post in the back yard near the deck. In this one, I have zinnias, mixed coneflowers, black-eyed susans, shasta daisies, and bubblegum pink supertunias.

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Coneflowers, bishop’s weed, impatiens and geraniums in the curved border, yellow lantana in the background.

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Coneflowers and a pink rose bush along the fence

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More views of the fence border, including begonias, coneflowers, bishop’s weed, vinca and more. I love coneflowers and have them everywhere. We are in the process of lengthening this border right now and I have even more coneflowers, black-eyed susans, torenia, burgundy yarrow, salvia and vinca ready to plant.

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The small flower beds around the new gazebo have filled in nicely. These beds include nasturtiums, impatiens, mixed colors of torenia, salvias, polka-dot plants, begonias, alyssum and asparagus ferns. The hanging ferns are huge!

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For the times when I want to escape the color and the full sun of the yard, I have the secret garden. Here, I have a very few small white and light pink impatiens and begonias but it’s mostly shades of green, with hostas, ferns, liriope, dwarf evergreens and native trees, and a fountain in deep shade.

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