What a beautiful estate ! You don't even think about sleeping in Summer, do you?
There's a kitty in the window!
This picture is a couple years old. Where the red bonica bush is in this picture, we now have a large cement fountain with lion heads. And rose bushes around the fountain. I was looking for a picture of it, but can't find any right now.
Rupert, the Gargoyle, lives in the front yard.
The weigelas here were a bit overgrown. If we don't prune mercilessly, they go crazy.
As you walk from the pool area through the arbor into the back yard....
Great container gardening, but there's no cat in the foreground... are you sure this is your picture Norachan?Let's see your gardens!
Wait ! Before you find a place to sit down, could you come over and help dig some beds?
I know it will take 4 to 5 years for the plants to fill in and mature. And meantime I will plant iris and daylilies to fill in. But the main job is now done. I still have to water often this coming Summer, as these new plants take 2 years to be established. Whew! I only have to deal with mowing the grass in the back yard, fenced in area, where the dogs go, and where I sit out often in nice weather.
It happens fast. Just take one day off from maintenance in the Summer and Mother Nature will make another ten days' work for you. I'm giving up on hand-weeding the border beds; this year I'm buying a bazooka.
Very pretty! And that is a LOT more work than just naturalized. Nicely done!
Naturalized, Mother Nature taking over - that is what I am aiming for.