Our new back yard in our Houston-area home. When we moved into the house, the yard was all fenced in, carpeted with St. Augustine grass sod. For various reasons we were a bit slow to start on gardening (for one, it was in the middle of Houston's steamy summer; for another, being run over by a car while riding my bike didn't help my mobility), but by the fall of 2016 we had established a few planting pockets to break the monotony of grass and fence. A January freeze did in some of the plantings (nurseries around here thrive on zone optimism, it seems), but we added a few more plantings the next spring. Things didn't really get started, though, until we commissioned a waterfall pond to be installed in April 2017. The extra soil available from pond excavation helped in the building of lots of new borders along that back fence, and the constant clatter of the waterfall and the antics of our goldfish gaggle draw us out into the garden a lot more. So even though it's still looking pretty sparse, the creative horticultural juices are flowing once again, and I look forward to establishing a back-yard reprieve from the formal front-yard landscaping dictated by the home-owners association. I haven't seen nearly enough butterflies yet, let alone hummingbirds, but we're doing our best to attract them! Meanwhile, the list of plantings keeps on growing. Currently growing in our back yard
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June 03, 2017 |
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