It started with lawn and some foundation shrubs.
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| Feb 2007 |
It got a small strip at the road edge for planting, and a ginkgo, pomegranate.
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| May 2008 |
Some circles were dug out of the lawn and planted with sunflowers and maize with beans. The first pineapple guava was planted. Sunflowers an hollyhocks at the road edge.
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| July 2008 |
A larger excavation, building a berm and basin designed to catch water running off the road. Planted with herbs, more pineapple guavas, lavender, and more.
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| November 2008 |
The shrubs started to fill out the space more, and herbs expanded.
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| April 2009 |
A rugosa rose blooms in the berm, and various shrubs expand their reach. Volunteer plants started to grow, a fig tree was one.
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| April 2010 |
Lots of herbs, blooming shrubs, the pineapple guavas are laden with blossoms this year, calendula rimmed the edge, bamboo, elderberry, lemon balm, lots of lavender and rosemary. Oregano was transplanted there in the winter and has taken hold. It will make a good, year-round groundcover. Thyme is also spreading.
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| June 2011 |
Quite a different view of the front yard from across the road now.
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| June 2011 |
2 comments:
Hi,
Nice yard! I think back to the suburban development I grew up in (near Sacramento) and think, "oh, the neighbors would have had a FIT if someone's yard looked like that!" Boy I'm glad times are changing!!
Peace,
Isabel (in Red Bluff)
Hi Isabel,
Funny story, the first year we moved into our house I let the front lawn get a little shaggy and the neighbor woman came over to ask if we needed to borrow their lawn mower. Not too subtle a hint.
Now the jungle is really getting going and some people will stop to ask me about the various plants growing out there and tell me how much they like all the flowers. I'm pretty sure the neighbor woman isn't that crazy about the transformation, and we still let the lawn go to the shaggy stage before cutting it.
We are on a street that is not all cookie cutter houses, it is a real mix, so there isn't really one type of front yard to which to conform.
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