Garden: An Ongoing WIP

A month or so ago I started posting snippets of my new WIP King Stud, and it’s been a lot of fun – and certainly encouraging – to see how people are responding to it. But I have to be honest. I did the first post for a relatively selfish reason. I was having trouble finding my groove with the piece. I knew I liked it, and figured if I started putting it out there, I’d force myself to keep working on it.

Well, I’m over halfway there, and while the groove is still a little wonky, it’s much better, thanks to you fabulous Rancourtesans who’ve left  so many positive comments.

And now I’m going to try the same thing with my garden.

A garden is an ongoing work in progress, right? Every day, every week, every season things are different. While I’m rarely 100% satisfied, there are things happening in my yard this year that make me very happy. I hope that by posting them here – in public – I’ll hold myself accountable for keeping it up better than I have in years’ past.

I can always hope.  

To start with, here are a couple of views of my front bed. I love the way things are filling in…

Purple-flowered species geranium, fading tulips, a small spirea Magic Carpet (the yellow-foliage shrub), shrub roses, Japanese anemone, and asters, with a clump of miscanthus (ornamental grass) at the far end.

Here’s another view of the same bed. One thing I want to work on – besides shortening the white drain pipe – is to fill up the little stream of tumbled glass that edges the bed.

Across a grass path is another flower bed with a large stone birdbath at the center.

Monarda (or Bee Balm)…I think…I can’t remember exactly, but I love the contrast of the fragile flowers against the stone .

Off to the side is a raised bed where I grow herbs. I have rather a lot of oregano, if anyone wants some. It grows in the backyard, too. LOTS of oregano.

At the far end is a big clump of sage surrounded by chives, then oregano, some time, more oregano, and a small trailing rosemary. There’s a clump of lavender right outside the picture.

And this is Burnsie, wondering why we haven’t gone on walkies yet.

Now I don’t know how long this will last, but I promise to post some pix from the garden weekly, so I’ll have to keep things from getting too out of order.

Wish me luck!

Peace,

Liv