1982 - This photo looks across the lot line of our two properties. The steps from the house to the lake have been built along with retaining walls and terracing in front of the boathouse. Daylilies, Iris and Azaleas are the backbone plants of the garden. Free bricks and flagstone (you haul!) defined the beds.
2006- Then... 20 years of neglect. The 6-9
Fashion Azaleas had grown to a dense 5' and tangled with wisteria and honeysuckle.
10/2007 - The area is cleared, the overgrown azaleas cut back to stumps and the wisteria wrestled to the ground. Two small iris leaves were found and will be nursed back, along with a bit of miniature gardenia. Note the old fence posts that still mark the lot line. We had the pines removed to open up our view from the house.
Signs of the old garden are being uncovered... some will be take up and relaid or replanted.
There are a few tiny daylilies struggling here and there. I plan to pot them and see if I can bring them back and identify them if they bloom. I hope I find this one which once hugged the edge of the lakewall...
1982 - This photo looks across the lot line of our two properties. The steps from the house to the lake have been built along with retaining walls and terracing in front of the boathouse. Daylilies, Iris and Azaleas are the backbone plants of the garden. Free bricks and flagstone (you haul!) defined the beds.
2006- Then... 20 years of neglect. The 6-9 Fashion Azaleas had grown to a dense 5' and tangled with wisteria and honeysuckle.
10/2007 - The area is cleared, the overgrown azaleas cut back to stumps and the wisteria wrestled to the ground. Two small iris leaves were found and will be nursed back, along with a bit of miniature gardenia. Note the old fence posts that still mark the lot line. We had the pines removed to open up our view from the house.
Signs of the old garden are being uncovered... some will be take up and relaid or replanted.
There are a few tiny daylilies struggling here and there. I plan to pot them and see if I can bring them back and identify them if they bloom. I hope I find this one which once hugged the edge of the lakewall...
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