Looking Back on Last Year and Ahead to This Year

Beauties of the year just past

Today we ’re off to Washington State , where we ’re visiting with Melina Mantey and looking back on the year past in the garden .

I do n’t know about you all , but after 2020 I am more thankful for my garden than ever before . Being able to follow the spring up seasons and the garden chores that come with each Modern calendar month keep time marching on last year and gave my genius a bit of a break from everything run short on . I landscaped every straight column inch of my garden , even area I foretell my married man I would leave alone , because I wanted to add in even more color and experiment with new plants . I ’ve been working on my garden in Zone 8a since 2013 , but the biggest changes have happen in 2019 and 2020 . As with many people , my garden serve as a self - prescribed medicinal drug for my mental health . And during the most thought-provoking of times is when my garden undergoes the biggest changes and gives path to the most beautiful and uplifting landscape .

While it can be hard to find grateful for meter that can stimulate us so much pain in the neck , I look around my space and feel gratitude for what I ’ve been able-bodied to achieve , especially in those moments . And even though some of us are just hail out of the pelting , blow , and mud season , I ’m continuing to rub my crap - stained hand together in plant - craze gleefulness , appear onwards to what this class ’s garden will bring . take into consideration all of the seedling I have raise in my nursery , there will be some beautiful things pass away on in my landscape painting ( fingers crossbreed ! ) . Until it warms up , though , countenance me just go through those seed magazine one more clip …

‘ Kiwi Blue’honeywort(Cerinthemajor‘Kiwi Blue ’ , yearly )

This backyard landscape includes rudbeckia(Rudbeckiahirta , Zones 3–7 ) , sedum(Hylotelephium‘Herbstfreude ’ , Zones 3–9 ) , hydrangea(Hydrangea macrophylla , zone 5–9),coreopsis(Coreopsis verticillata , Zones 3–9),Verbenabonariensis(Zones 7–10 or as an annual),Mexican feather grass(Nassella tenuissima , zone 7–10 ) , grim fescue grass(Festucaglauca , Zones 4–8 ) .

Trailing nasturtium(Tropaeolummajus , annual ) and bee

Hellebore(Helleborushybrid , Zones 4–9 ) , bellflowers(Campanulasp . ) , Spanish lavender(Lavandulastoechas , Zones 7–10 ) , pansies(Viola× wittrockiana , cool time of year yearly ) , little heathland pieris(Pierisjaponica‘Little Heath ’ , Zone 6–8 ) .

Front window box with Hosta ( Zones 3–9 ) , dusty miller(Jacobaea maritima , Zones 7–10 or as an annual ) , Alberta spruce(Piceaglauca‘Conica ’ , Zones 3–7 ) , pouf , hellebores .

African daisies(Osteospermum , annual )

Hydrangeas , hostas , hellebore , twilight nandina(Nandinadomestica , Zones 6–9 )

Lobelia(Lobeliaerinus , annual ) , genus Nasturtium , Martha Washington geranium(Pelargoniumhybrid , annual),verbena(annual ) , ‘ Mezoo Trailing Red’Livingstone daisy(Dorotheanthus bellidiformis‘Mezoo Trailing Red ’ , Zones 10–11 or as an annual ) .

Phlox(Phloxpaniculata , Zones 4–8 )

Wendy ’s Wish salvia(Salvia‘Wendy ’s Wish ’ , zona 9–10 or as an one-year ) , hostas , hydrangeas , ninebark(Physocarpusopulifolius , Zones 3–7 ) , smokebush(Cotinuscoggygria , Zones 4–8 ) , euonymus(Euonymusjaponicus , Zones 5–9),black mondo grass(Ophiopogon japonicus‘Nigrescens ’ , Zones 5–9 ) , andsedum .

decorative cabbagewith fagot , photograph in the spill

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