From Weeds to Wow in Three Years

Hard work has paid off in a big way in this garden

Today ’s pic come from Janet Simmons .

I know in Plainwell , Michigan , and have attach some image of the gardens I have been working on since I run into my menage three years ago . When I go in , the landscape painting was overgrown and nothing but weed .

Wow . From overgrown weeds to this in just three age ? This planting on a fragile slope is succulent and beautiful . The curve itinerary with measure breaks up the planting and invites visitors in to research .

Tucked in between the lush perennials is a sweet-smelling niggling instant of garden art .

This close - up of the pour teapot sculpture reveals a signaling showing how much this garden means to Janet .

An arbour with seats cross off the edge of the lawn and the transition to the wooded sphere behind .

Neat edging line with Stone gives the garden beds a sharp , organized looking , and annual coleus tucked in among the perennials brings surplus semblance .

Window boxes brim over with coloring material . Calibrachoa(annual ) mingles with an airy whiteeuphorbia(‘Diamond Frost ’ or a similar cultivar , annual ) , while yellow-bellied creeping Jenny ( Lysimachianummularia‘Aurea ’ , Zones 3–9 ) tumbles down .

A huge peck of impatiens ( Impatienswalleriana , annual ) phone the fundament of a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .

frizzy crushed rock mulch and rock edging prepare off smartly growing perennial .

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