Yesterday I posted the drop garden meadow from our NYS home. Today I will finish up this nostalgic love story with pictures of the more formal beds.
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| The vegetable garden |
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| I wish this was a better picture |
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| This takes in a few garden beds, and looks back to the vegetable garden |
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| the front of the house |
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| my favorite photo of "the land" |
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| July - sheer joy |
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| one of the beds in front of the drop gardened meadow |
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| The wetlands way out back, with some drop gardened purple bee balms    |
It looks like a show garden. Not jealous at all. This is what I wish my garden looked like but I have a small yard and two large dogs and I live far north.
ReplyDeleteI especially love the rudbeckia, one of my favorite flowers but it doesn't do well here, unless you treat like an annual, which gets expensive.
Utterly gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI have dreams of formal beds like these but the man grows food, no discussions.
Beautiful! Such a labor of love!
ReplyDeleteThese photos of your past garden are a treasure. Thank you so much for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteDo you know if the current owners have been able to maintain the gardens, or do you just think back on them with pleasure?
ReplyDeleteThe people who bought it from us did not keep up with it all, which I understand. They had two young children and worked. We drove by about 2 years after we moved away, and it looked like they removed a couple of beds, including the ones in front and on the side of the house. Couldn't really see out back too well. However, they sold the house about 4 years ago, and the new owner found the map, and contacted me for the summary. So, who knows? I never really expected any one to maintain it like we did.
DeleteIt must have been relaxing to live among all that beauty.
ReplyDeleteWow! Very impressive! Where are the weeds?! ;)
ReplyDeleteSo glad you have these lovely photos!
A very impressive garden you had there. As Ellen says, where are the weeds? I see the vegetable garden is well protected by netting. Hopefully that meant a bumper crop of vegetables.
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I'm sure such a huge responsibility would condemn me to a worsening of my condition and - quite quickly - an early grave. Our house had a tiny lawn, hardly worth bothering about. I had it replaced with paving bricks. And now weeds flourish in the gaps between the bricks and I must resort to the long-handled wire brush. Can't bend, you see.
ReplyDeleteThere's a re-comment that might interest you in today's Tone Deaf.
ReplyDeleteWhat a joy! How happy your overflow plants were to be 'dropped' in, they certainly repaid your efforts! Things sound hopeful with the new owner. I try not to think about what is happening to gardens that I have cherished.
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