Lila’s Garden Makeover

New growing spaces for a forever home

Today we ’re visiting with Lila Johnson ( whose garden we ’ve visited before : The flower of August ) .

My garden has been feature in the GPOD antecedently , but after much persuasion and several play subsequently , my husband and I strike forward with a landscape painting makeover in early April 2021 .

At our geezerhood , 78 and 77 , we had a good heart - to - mettle talking and decide we were in our forever home plate . It ’s a rambler in a nice neighborhood with bang-up neighbors , and we sleep with our garden , which is decent - sized for our community of Mill Creek , Washington .

The start point was to pull up the oldlawnand employment from there . Although we both love the face of a gullible lawn , we knew we want less of it and perhaps another patio where we could sit in the morning sun with a cup of coffee or seek shade in the other evening with a glass of wine .

I enjoy the look ofdry streambeds , and we already had a lot of rock candy around the border of our garden , which also has about threesun exposure areas(shade , sun , and part ghost / sun ) . I also need electric retail store instal , as landscape painting lighting will be append next : the crushed - voltage kit kind that we can do . A crushed rock track and woodarborwere added along with a Pennsylvania bluestone patio . The sensation is a Japanese coral bark maple(Acerpalmatum‘Sango Kaku ’ , Zones 5–9 ) behind the patio , and I had my husband drag out an uplight from Christmas and the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree depend amazing at night !

The landscape gang transfer things from around our garden and add together many unexampled plants too . We ’ve never really liked our smallfront pace , which faces awkwardly on the street , so on a whim and after chatting with the landscapist , we added a dry streambed out front too . And we ’ve gotten many compliments . I finally care our front one thousand .

We ’re happy , although we ’ve likely created more work for ourselves , as many more planting areas were added and my husband likes the bark / mulch raked and looking tidy . This first year is a “ wait and see ” year before we move or bring planting .

Here is one of the “ before ” views . While it already depend unspoiled , there is lots of space to add together more plant and hardscaping .

Sometimes things have to get spoilt before they get better ! The coral bark maple is sitting in its toilet , waiting to go into the priming .

And here is an “ after ” photo , show the newgravel path , arbor , and lots of places for novel plants !

The new dry streambed in the front garden looks pretty cracking !

The coral barque maple is fire up up to show off its beauty .

A humblebee enjoy the new garden , particularly the flowers of this intercrossed coneflower ( Echinaceahybrid , Zones 5–9 ) .

Container plantingsdress up the novel hardscaping .

The novel landscape painting let in a newpatioto sit on and enjoy the space .

Have photos to deal ? We ’d love to see your garden , a special collection of plants you have a go at it , or a terrific garden you had the chance to gossip !

To submit , send 5 - 10 exposure to[email protected]along with some entropy about the plants in the pictures and where you took the photos . We ’d love to hear where you are located , how long you ’ve been garden , success you are proud of , failures you learned from , hopes for the future tense , preferent plant , or funny stories from your garden .

If you need to send photos in separate electronic mail to theGPOD email boxthat is just all right .

Have a mobile earphone ? Tag your photograph onFacebook , InstagramorTwitterwith # FineGardening !

You do n’t have to be a professional garden photographer – check out ourgarden photography tips !

Do you receive the GPOD by electronic mail yet?Sign up here .

garden path leading to small patio

Get our latest wind , how - to articles , and instructional video sent to your inbox .

Fine Gardening recommend Products

Buffalo - Style Gardens : make a Quirky , One - of - a - sort individual Garden with Eye - transmittable designing

garden before landscaping

Fine Gardening receive a commission for item purchased through data link on this site , include Amazon Associates and other affiliate publicizing programs .

SHOWA Atlas 370B Nitrile Palm Coating Gloves , Black , Medium ( Pack of 12 Pairs )

Lee Valley Large Gardener ’s Wash Basket

garden makeover in progress

signalise you up …

Lila’s Colorful Containers in Washington

Looking Back at an Old Garden

Joel’s Flowers

Evolving From Vegetables to Flowers

Join Fine Gardening for a devoid engage live webinar featuring Dr. Janna Beckerman , a famed plant pathologist as well as professor emerita at Purdue University and the ornamental technical managing director …

When I spot a particular sand dollar cactus ( Astrophytum asterias ) at the Philadelphia Flower Show a few calendar month ago , I knew I was in worry . With a delightful colour pattern …

When we only prioritize plants we require over plants our landscape needs , each season is filled with a never - finish list of chores : pruning , hook , lachrymation , treating , amending , and fertilizing , with …

garden path leading to wooden arbor

Video

Touring an Eco-friendly, Shady Backyard Retreat

You must be measured when you enter the backyard of garden room decorator Jeff Epping — not because you ’re probable to trigger off on something , but because you might be dive - bombed by a pair …