Best Garden in Four Years
This garden was created in four years with lots of love, patience, and hard work. It is located in the Sand Hills of South Carolina.
From a "shake and bake" beginning, this garden has been awarded the National Wildlife Foundation's habitat citation. It grows in pure sand, lots of sun, and practically no real soil. For the first year there was no irrigation system. All the reasons that you can't garden have been disproved here. Mulching played a big role.
The gazebo, with red hot pokers in front, provides comfort and a rest area for the owners.
The gardener is not afraid to try new and different bulbs and cuttings, and scours the catalogs for the unusual.
Shade is being provided by high pines and new transplants will soon come along to give structure to the garden.
Collections of daylilies, hostas, and sedums are perfect low maintenance plants for great shows.
The side garden is a desert garden. Driftwoods and cactus give the garden a great entrance.
A bird bath has become an off-the-ground container-planter, for vines, like ground ivy geranium.
Chinese foxglove is especially colorful in the spring.
The water garden is filled with Koi, and the bog garden has carnivorous plants like pitcher plants. Pickerel and curly rush abound.
The wandering paths are bordered by hosta and rose campion.
Full sun does wonder for yellow hot pokers, cone flowers, iris, and both Asiatic and day lilies, and sun coleus.
The mushroom is not real. Thank heaven. Three feet of a concrete mushroom makes a nice statement in a bed.
Love Lies Bleeding, a Thomas Jefferson plant, proudly increases each year.
Empress Tree photo also from this Sand Hills Garden.
Everyone who visits this garden comes away with renewed spirit and an appreciation of dedicated work.
Happy Birthday Ms R.
