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Sunday, June 19, 2005
Check out the new backyard
» Posted by Jon at 6:52 pm :: Comments (1)
We finished planted the new beds in the corners of our backyard yesterday. "Finished?" you ask. "We didn't know you started," you think. Yeah, well, I'm sure I mentioned our landscaping plans somewhere along the way. Maybe it just wasn't shared here.
Regardless, we've got new trees, new flowering plants, new watering chores and more things on the way. So let's take a tour, left to right around the new yard.
Oakington Blue Eyes Creeping Phlox
phlox subulata
Masses of light purple flowers over low foliage. O.k., it's ground cover at the edge of the beds
Downy serviceberry
White flowers in spring, red berries in summer, leaves might turn red in fall. It's much taller than we expected, but is probably close to its final height. Looks like it will branch out a bit to a fuller crown.
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta "prairie sun"
Blooms midsummer to early fall, brilliant yellow flowers grow 5 inches wide and attract butterflies. Some of the yellow buds are already starting to burst.
Bizon Blue Colorado Spruce
Picea pungens glauca
Brilliant blue color and very symmetrical. There's actually three of them forming the one corner of the yard. Since we had to keep everything out of the drainage easement running behind our property we couldn't use those trees or the beds to alleviate some of that problem, but we might use some of the leftover top soil to even out the low spots and improve the drainage.
Bee Balm "Raspberry Wine"
Monarda didyma
Blooms in summer, intense pink flowers clusters attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
Compass plant
Silphium Laciniatum
Slow growing, long-lived native tall, long-lasting spike with bright yellow flowers that, apparently, follow the sun.
Purple coneflower (ruby star)
Ecinacea purpurea
Abundant carmine flowers attract butterflies and are excellent cut flowers, blooms june-september
Liatris "kobold"
Blazing Star Liatris spicata
Blooms mid to late summer. Native American wildflower, sends up beautiful wands of rose-lavender flowers which are loved by hummingbirds and butterflies. Cut flowers very long-lasting.
Prairie drop seed
It's grass. Really.
Little lanterns columbine
aquilegia
Red flowers with yellow corolla. I think.
President Grevy French Lilac
Syringa x "President Grevy"
Large panicles of lilac-blue double blossoms, profuse flowers attract butterflies, blooms late spring
Dogwood
Pink flowers in spring
Lobelia 'Fan Scarlet'
Lobelia x speciosa
Spikes of vibrant red flowers add late season color. Attracts hummingbirds. blooms july to september
Stonecrop
Sedum Spectabile "Neon"
Butterfly attracting neon pink flowers and russet seed heads that remain attractive through winder. Blooms midsummer to fall.
Foxtrot
Pennisetum alopecuroides
a warm season clumping perennial, grows up to five feet high, best in sun, flowers in july
Bee Balm 'Coral Reef'
Monarda didyma
Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Coral pink flowers. blooms mid to late summer
Hummingbird clethra
Clethra alnifolia 'hummingbird'
Fragrant white flowers that, surprise, attract hummingbirds.
O.k., so we'll try to get more information about some of those. In any case, here's what the finished beds look like.
Perhaps later I'll put up the time-lapse version of the project. Maybe after the mulching, edging and finalizing on Monday.
» Filed under: Backyard, Locally, Photolog
Comments
Looks great! If everything works as it should, you should have lots of hummingbirds and butterflies as well as color all year.
While you were planting, Dad was painting the great room, dining room, and kitchen. We now have some color on the white walls. It looks much warmer, but also smaller.
While he was painting I was relaxing on lakes in Minnesota with Anne, Wayne, Charity, Kristen, and Ann-Marie. We had two days of rain and cold, but the others were sunny and warm with perfect sleeping weather at night.
» Posted by: Mom and Dad on Sunday, July 10, 2005 at 5:56 pm
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