My east facing garden relies more on foliage than flowers but thats fine by me.
Foliage in my garden
The view above is from the dining room window, the place we sit together to eat and share our day or use the table with laptops to work from home, do homework, catch up with emails and sometimes blog. We sit here too watching the birds and any pollinators who come this far up into the shadier parts of the garden. The foliage is home to lots of insects and birds and there are some mice too who eat up the fallen bird seed. Hydrangea petiolaris, Dentata ivy, Aucuba, Jacquemontii birch, box, a golden hop which twines up through the hidden Amelanchier and onto the bird feeder. In late May and June foxgloves are some of the few flowers in this border. And now my neighbor has treated her Viburnham opulus to a dose of nematodes we have wonderful blazing red autumn color rather than the tatty net curtain leaves that used to hang over into my garden and drive me nuts.
Autumn color especially for Christina
Today, Christina who writes a wonderful, engaging, knowledgable and generous blog Creating my own garden of the Hesperides has written her 500th blog post which coincides with her hosting the GBFD meme on the 22nd of each month, please take a look at Christina’s post and others who have joined in to celebrate.
