These raised beds in the back yard used to hold my veggies. Since the addition of the side garden, I converted these beds to mostly perennial flowers. Once they are grown and need dividing, I will split them and add them around the vegetable bed fence. That's the great thing about perennials. As they grow you can divide them into smaller plants and transplant them wherever you need to. Most perennials tolerate this will as long as they are still pretty dormant when you divide them. Unless they're hosta's. I've yet to kill a hosta by dividing it. :0)
This is a Annabelle Hydrangea that is outside my front door. I bought this years ago and it was only a 4 inch little stick. She blooms more and more each year as long as I feed her regularly. I compost her base in the spring and fertilize once every 14 days or so and compost and mulch her in the winter. A very prolific bloomer and is great for cut flower arrangements around the house.
This is a St. Therese hydrangea I bought many years ago. Although the Therese hydrangea is supposed to be white, our soil here tends to be acidic and although you can't see it well in this photo, she has the loveliest blue tinge to the edges of her blossoms. A very beautiful hydrangea. She was also a stick when I planted her many years ago.
This is a stone bed I built a few weeks back. It is filled with Astilbe, hydrangea, hosta, coleus, impatiens, a cinnamon fern and four Hakone grasses. Although the plants are just babies, next year it should be very pretty.
This is the back of the house and the two stone beds I built. To the left is my blackberry bushes. They're loaded with blooms and forming beautiful berries. It's a thornless blackberry which makes picking, pruning and weeding so much easier than its thorny cousins.
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