It doesn't look like much (yet) but I've spent the last 6-8 weeks digging out goddamn daylillies and hostas and other random weeds to add native plants all around my yard. I've finished a few spaces and some are works in progress (the remaining hostas and astilbe will be replaced), halted because I can't buy any more natives until websites start selling for fall/spring again. So here we pause!
When I can buy more, I'll be adding common milkweed, big leaf aster, foamflower, wild ginger, and probably more wild columbine and spring ephemerals. I have a very shady lot, so a lot of these are spring bloomers and I think it's going to be gorgeous 😍
The amount of time, sweat, and money here is… probably too much 😅
by AnonymousSneetches
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It looks great!!
What are those lanterns you have in the first picture? Those are cool!
Spring will be so lovely. I have a full sun bloom show going at the moment but I miss my spring ephemerals in the shade around my front porch. I noticed that my spring plants & plugs took off more quickly than the sun loving plants so I bet your garden will be stunning next April & May.
Oh this is gorgeous!!
All in due time.
Woodland shade gardens are so thrilling in their own way!! My yard is mostly prairie-style but I have a few nooks I’ve been planting with spring ephemerals and their companions 😊 You’ve done a lot this first(?!) year, and it’ll be so rewarding to see it fill in and continue adding new friends at a more relaxed pace now!
I’ve been wanting to be doing this, but had a 20 day migraine in May-June. Got a lot in in the 4 days I felt pretty good for 1-3 hrs after work, and removed almost 1/5th of the vinca along the east side of our house along with mugwort, and at least got some mountain mint and mistflower in before it rained. Then I got Covid and ever since it’s been almost 90 every day. And now I have another dang migraine so even though I’m recovered enough from Covid to want to go out at 8 am when it’s still 74 degrees, the migraine makes even that hour feel utterly not doable. (Not sharing to dump my misery, I promise. It’s been a tough couple months but it will pass… I just hope I can get my plants in the ground soon!!)
All this to say, be PROUD! And grateful you have the capacity to pour out the blood sweat and tears to create beauty and biodiversity and sweetness in your lovely shady yard! I’m celebrating you!
You’ll love foam flower! I got one this year and it just makes me so happy to look at.
My Florida yard is nearly all sun drenched, so I am here for the shady woodland type gardens!