Our garden is thriving this year. 💚 Video shows a part shade through full sun section of our backyard garden in Northeast Illinois. Our soil is loamy clay. This area trends toward dry.
Forbs and ferns are at most 5 years old. Some were only planted 3 years ago. The Shadbushes were here when we moved in 8 years ago.
My plant friends, in order of appearance:
Wild Ginger – Asarum canadense: gorgeous groundcover
Virginia Waterleaf – Hydrophyllum virginianum: just past a beautiful bloom!
Sensitive Fern – Onoclea sensibilis: ancient plants providing lovely texture
Bur Sedge – Carex grayi: delightful both in the garden, and dried in arrangements
Shadbush/Serviceberry – Amelanchier: having a banner year for their delicious berries
Columbine – Aquilegia canadensis: awesome self-seeders: just past an astounding bloom
Foxglove Beardtongue – Penstemon digitalis: planted just two years ago
by SpiritedButterfly834
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Very nice!
Are the birds also having a hay day with your serviceberry? I won’t get any to snack on cause the cedar waxwings have swarmed it! No complaints though
Wow! Did that ginger spread from a few plants or did you have a lot of plugs? Mine is just sooooo slow!! 😭
Wonderful wow, those have all grown out spectacularly! gorgeous space great job
Love the ginger. I have it all over our backyard and it is truly an underrated ground cover! First to pop up in the spring, first to flower and stays green all season
look at that dense fuckin mass. no morsels of soil in between
that’s how it’s done
good fuckin job, champ
I’ve been considering Wild ginger! One question: have you tried it?
Incredible work!
Your ginger looks amazing.
where did you get your ginger from? it’s gorgeous & i’ve been dying to introduce it in my yard as a ground cover. total garden goals here.
Beautiful!!
Literally just took so many screenshots wow!! Thank you so much for sharing
Wow! Jealous of all of those serviceberries for sure!
What’s the tall grassy looking plant under the serviceberry?
I love this. It’s been a while since someone’s garden bed made me day “wow” here, and this did it! Density and abundance in spades.
I just added Virginia waterleaf last year and I love it, so nice to see it. Also finally managed to get ginger that seems to be thriving.
Very lovely.
This is awesome! I love your wild ginger very healthy !
all hail the serviceberry 🙌🏻
This is beautiful!!
Fuckin’ lovely! Look at that service berry!
Love the ginger! I had some gorgeous wild ginger at my old house, I miss it. Not enough shade to grow it in my new garden 😭