Looking Back Over the Growing Season

Now is a great time to look back at how the garden did

Marla Morgan shared this facial expression - back at the last growing season in her garden .

We garden in Idaho Falls , Idaho . We fell in sexual love with this township tidy sum about 15 years ago because of the surprisingly great number of trees ( at least 30 ) pack into such a small area . We have had to reduce down several sick aspens and a 30 - year - old elephantine birch tree , but we constantly plant new trees of all varieties . I ’m rather impetuous , so sometimes we implant them too close together . But we run with it and allow thing evolve . These photo are some highlight of my last growing season , spring through fall .

Our backyard in spring . The aspen ( genus Populus tremuloides , Zones 1–6 ) do n’t do so well in our climate , and we sometimes drop off a struggle and tailor one down , but we love them . We allow some of the suckers raise , so these are a combination of young young unity and a few of the rest original ones .

The backyard gets very wild by midsummer , with self - sown poppies that come and go in number , regal salvia that spread out all over , columbine that develop in color over the years , and iris that were yield to me some years back . The burnished yellowness is creeping jenny ( Lysimachia nummularia‘Aurea’,Zones 4–8 ) , which is slightly aggressive but is held back fairly well by the moth-eaten winters here . I have a terrible trouble with quack grass throughout my border garden , and I do n’t use Mary Jane killer because we have too many pets . We assay to weed a lot in the spring but usually give up by this metre of year and permit it get cover up by overcrowded industrial plant .

These poppies ( Papaver rhoeas , one-year ) were here in the “ smoke plot ” when we moved in . I educate them each year , but some geezerhood ago they disappeared because I weeded too many out one year . Last year , I mirthfully found one single blossom and got them going again . My salvia and purple coneflower spread like sick also , although they have n’t quite bloomed in this photograph .

Our may tree diagram ( Crataegussp . ) in the kernel of the front 1000 blooms every class in May with clean redolent blossoms . They are an old Idaho Falls favorite , and you may always count on them blooming all over town at the first of May each yr . Creeping thyme , iris , daylily , and hosta line the front walkway .

The bright yellow isEuphorbiapolychroma(cushion spurge , Zones 4–8 ) , which our hard winter keep in check-out procedure , along with heavy weeding in the spring . It deform a lovely red ink in the fall .

A mid - May view out our living room windowpane of the crabapple tree ( Malussp . ) . Pink and blank in the spring , green in the summertime , undimmed orange tree in the pin , this tree diagram creates a LOT OF WORK with dropped crab apple in the late fall .

We managed to find a sunny touch in the backyard to grow some food this year : beetroot , sunflowers , pea plant , and bean .

flow color with the mountain ash ( Sorbussp . ) in the front railway yard . The birds screw the cherry Charles Edward Berry this time of yr , and we get flocks of different form coming through . Mountain ash hold onto its fruit through the winter until it is mostly wipe out .

The may tree in its lovely wintertime form . The regal coneflowers ( Echinacea purpurea , Zones 3–9 ) are in the foreground .

This red tree diagram is the purple ash tree ( Fraxinus americana‘Autumn Purple ’ , Zones 3–9 ) when it changes colour . Once we have a hard frost , it drop off its leaves almost overnight , so the color has to be relish quickly .

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