Garden Visions Achieved

Creating a beautiful garden with limited resources

We ’re chew the fat Linda Westmeyer ’s garden today .

I bought my small sign of the zodiac in Cleveland in 1983 . I do it flower and horticulture and had visions of create an amazing landscape painting of blossom and enjoying a bountifulvegetable garden . world check : I was a undivided 28 - yr - old female with a very limited income . I started digging lilliputian sections at a time and lease reward of the rocks and driftwood on the shores of Lake Erie . I am still here and still planting — propel a little slower , but still looking forward to future planting !

A dauphin reddish blue ( Streptocarpus saxorum ) is a beautiful congener of the popularAfrican violetsthat makes a great yearly for shaded areas and can easy make the transition to houseplant when Robert Frost threatens .

An archway welcomes visitant to the abundant garden beyond .

It looks like Linda ’s visual sense has been achieved ! What a beautiful and welcoming garden . The mass of dark blue and pinkish flowers in the foreground is larkspur ( Consolidaajacis ) , which is a great , easy - to - grow annual alternative to fussier delphinium .

Another view of the front garden . I jazz the romantic , loose , cottage garden find .

A swarm of prime fills the garden .

on-key lilies ( genusLilium ) anddaylilies(genusHemerocallis ) mingle , each bringing its own brand of ravisher to the garden .

Spring in the front garden , with lading oftulipsanddaffodilsmingling with carpets of creeping phlox ( Phloxsubulata , Zones 3–9 ) . The lilac-colored colouration of the phlox complement the warmer note of the prime bulbs dead , and repeating the same variety of phlox all over the garden pulls the whole outer space together .

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