The garden was overgrown when we moved last year, and it’s been a year to clean it from picture 1 to picture 2z This spring we were surprised by the row of bleeding hearts, and I decided to add to it with some shad plants. Took a whole weekend of pulling weeds, vinca minor, ditch lilies and poison ivy, planting and adding the stone wall. We have a zillion stones in my property so I reused those to help with the slope.
Now I’m unsure what to do with the back/side, it looks too messy/woodsy for me and I kinda want to have a more “put together” look. What should go in there? Also any tips in dealing with my neighbors English ivy invading my yard?
Tips are appreciated! I’ve got a lot of help and learned a lot from you guys 🙂
by yyyllluan
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Like most people on here, I’d suggest some native plants. I’d also make sure they’re low maintenance and require limited sun.
Many astilbe are available that enjoy part sun or shade and filtered sun. We also love lung worts for our shade yard. Aralia Sun King is a lovely perennial that we have in dense shade that is a beautiful pop of bright green and zero maintenance as it grows back each year from the ground. It will be larger. We mix it in with some blue angel hostas and we love the color contrast
This is GREAT work. Such natural geographic beauty can do a lot of heavy lifting for your garden. Good luck!
I absolutely love the rock garden! It’s stunning.
Awesome effort!😃💪💪💪🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳😃
So beautiful! I love this