Lil’s learn-as-you-go garden in Massachusetts

Today ’s garden come to us from Massachusetts:“My name is Lil Holloway , eld 74 , retired from a direction position and more latterly from tangible land . We live in Bedford , Massachusetts , mighty on the Billerica line . In fact we are the last house on a dirt route that leads to the bike course . For this reason , there is no route in front of our home : it ’s all grass and some trees .

We have an Accho of land . I have my big garden out back , my rose by the pack of cards , and what I call the “ patch ” which is on a slope going to the motorcycle trail . We built this home 19 years ago and in our back yard was sort of a kidney - form spot with honest-to-goodness ( some decompose ) trees , lots of dead leaves , etc . I looked at it and thought , “ What a perfect spot for a garden . ” We clean it up and added lots of peat moss , garden soil , etc .

I set off with bulbs for the spring and the deer just loved my beautiful presentation of tulip . Lesson learned , I recognize nothing about horticulture , just what I eff , which at the time was rosebush . But the loanblend , floribundas , etc . , did n’t like this daub ( it endure downhill a bit ) , so I moved them up to the deck of cards . The bush roses were not as grouchy and they have done well . KO , ‘ Lady Elsie May ’ , and three gravid pinkish shrubs that I have leave the name of … they mature over five feet improbable . Also a climbing iron called ‘ Winner ’s Circle ’ , which is very abundant and disease - devoid .

Anyway , the bush roses are on the edge of the garden and the shopping center is filled with lavender , columbine , daylilies , Asiatic lilies , bee balm , false indigo , ‘ Hermann ’s Pride ’ genus Lamium , anenome , coneflowers , tall phlox , Siberian and Japanese irises , yarrow , perennial geranium ( really rise up a tree ) , honeysuckle , foxglove , sedum tall and little , chives , hellebores , heliopsis , and others I ’ve lost the tag for .

My married man built a trellis for me with a bench seat . I love demand my umber or breakfast out there and just love the butterfly stroke and boo and deciding what works and what does n’t . Gardening is an on - going encyclopaedism process , tons of hard work and a love .

Because it changes every yr , I started assign together a spring and summertime garden Holy Scripture using CVS on - line , and this yr I used my iMac . All photos are taken with my iPhone 5 . This show to be a large tool and my friends think it ’s beautiful . Of course , all garden are a “ snap - snapshot in time . ” I retrieve the book are a produce illusion , as I ’m show folks only what I want them to see and not my neighbor ’s shed or driveway .

My garden has no formal intention . It change every class based on what works and how many mistake I ’ve made the year before . It is not perfect , it can be chaotic , but it is a riot of color that the butterfly and birds love . For me it is a garden to walk in and to enjoy . It reminds me every twenty-four hour period of the perfection and beauty that is nature . My garden bring me joyousness … .. weeds and all . ”

Beautiful , Lil . Your lily are so wonderful ! And I really need to bribe some bush roses … . Thank you ! !

The season is winding down , everyone ! Get outside with that tv camera . We need to see your garden ! Yes I say indigence . Not require . motive .

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