Author Topic: Pictures from the yard taken today... (Read 3205 times)

Johns · « **on:** March 31, 2007, 03:50:51 PM »

Pictures from the yard taken today:

Redid the stream last week, still need to do some strtegic rock placements.

Put in a new bridge. The brown flower on the twig in the foreground is Calycanthus floridus, Common Name Sweet

shrub.

Water Hawthorne, blooming in the pool.

Another view of stream.

Here are some Trillium Luteum. (The shrooms are fake.)

Trout Lily Erythronium americanum, albeit out of focus.

View of the "Secret Garden", with creeping phlox in foreground

Wild Columbine in full bloom.

Wild red Honeysuckle.

The groundcover, Mazus reptans.

Rhododendron canescens, or Wild azalea.

English wood Hyacinth, Scilla campanulata.

Wood Poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum front, Virginia Bluebells, Mertensia virginica rear.

Brunnera.

The Helleborus is about done.

Loropetalum chinense.

Dicentra spectibilis, Bleeding Heart.

The fragrant Carolina Jasmine.

Jerry · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2007, 03:56:32 PM »

a veritable Botanical Garden!

Joyce · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2007, 06:31:20 PM »

a veritable Botanical Garden!

Yes, it is, I have been there a few times....

And all I can say is that the pix don't do it justice!

Plus he has ceramic mushrooms....gotta love the guy for that!

SheilaJ · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2007, 06:50:41 PM »

WOW! Lovely, lovely gardens! I've just got crocus and daffodils blooming so far, azaleas are a month away...

Esther · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2007, 06:51:22 PM »

Beautiful landscaping.

ladybug · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2007, 07:42:05 PM »

i have been there too, and like joyce said, pictures do not do it justice. looks great johns
ladybug

froggerLee · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2007, 05:36:32 PM »

Beautiful, Johns, just beautiful. So much blooming already.
My mom lives just below you, in Fort Mill, and she keeps telling me what is blooming down there, already. Makes me sick! Things have just started here!

Ky Kim · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2007, 05:53:33 PM »

Beautiful.

Kim

Sandye · « **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2007, 09:39:48 PM »

Beautiful garden, Johns!!!

I'd love to have a garden that looks like that...and I NEED a stream.

Mikey · « **Reply #9 on:** April 01, 2007, 10:35:47 PM »

Thanks for the Spring Garden Tour......Internet style

Gene · « **Reply #10 on:** April 02, 2007, 02:13:04 AM »

Absolutely beautiful, John! Thanks for sharing.

EagleEye · « **Reply #11 on:** April 02, 2007, 05:52:42 AM »

Gorgeous plantings and yard John

Steve

Teresa · « **Reply #12 on:** April 02, 2007, 07:19:25 AM »

Lovely plants and flowers!

I have always loved mazus and grew it on the beach for the first several years I had the pond . . . . gorgeous when it bloomed and draped into the water.

And sweet shrub- one of my favorite plants - I have always loved the smell of that when in bloom. I looked for years for one when I moved into this house. Nobody knew what I was talking about. Wish I could take a nice deep wiff of those flowers . . . .

Lorraine · « **Reply #13 on:** April 02, 2007, 06:43:02 PM »

Wow, beautiful yard. The weeping angel statue,I saw that in the catalog but gosh it sure is beautiful. I didn't realize it was that pretty. Your yard art is great ...I'm making a list of what I want from there

Lorraine

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 05, 2007, 09:34:09 AM »

Beautiful, I love a woodland garden

MikeW · « **Reply #15 on:** April 05, 2007, 09:44:29 AM »

What a welcoming space. One feels like wandering off and getting hapilly lost for a few hours.

Cheers,

Mike

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #16 on:** April 06, 2007, 12:23:27 PM »

What a gorgious garden you have. It does make you want to pull up a loung chair and a cool drink and just kick back.

Kittyzee · « **Reply #17 on:** April 06, 2007, 06:28:53 PM »

I love the woody, leafiness of it! I love unsculptured gardens like that, the neatly manicured ones are undoubtedly beautiful, but would make me too nervous to try and keep them that way

barb · « **Reply #18 on:** April 07, 2007, 09:28:30 AM »

That is so pretty, my style of gardening, too.

Ky Kim · « **Reply #19 on:** April 07, 2007, 01:53:17 PM »

Had to go back and look at them again on this cold day. I really like the angel, she's pretty.

Kim

Johns · « **Reply #20 on:** April 09, 2007, 08:40:39 AM »

KyKim,

The angel statue is "Angel of Grief” Monument from Design Toscano http://www.designtoscano.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=333
I placed this statue in our Secret Garden as a surprise memorial to my wife's mother who passed away in 2001. The original monument on which this is based is After the 1894 original by William Wetmore Story, in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WWStoryRome.jpg

Daisy · « **Reply #21 on:** April 09, 2007, 08:46:59 AM »

Wow gorgeous John. So inviting and calm looking.

CT · « **Reply #22 on:** April 09, 2007, 11:33:26 AM »

What a beautiful spring garden

Ky Kim · « **Reply #23 on:** April 09, 2007, 06:16:55 PM »

I bought something very similar at Meijers tonight. She's small, resin and solar, I know...solar stinks. I can care less if she has any light about her, I just like the little statue. I would rather have the one in the link you posted. Maybe one day, but till then......

I read the article about him, very interesting.

Kim

Viv · « **Reply #24 on:** April 10, 2007, 08:56:20 PM »

It's lovely Johns, what a lot of time you must put into it.

kaz · « **Reply #25 on:** April 12, 2007, 04:08:35 PM »

What a pretty garden you have there John... as always, I love the nick-knacks here and there... like the toadstools and stepping stones. Wish I could be as creative with my space!

Jane · « **Reply #26 on:** April 13, 2007, 04:19:57 AM »

Just beautiful, I really feel like I just strolled through the Botanical Gardens. I love the natural theme in the gardens.

How lovely to wake up, turn on the computer and and take a quiet beautiful tour without leaving my house.

Perhaps when I visit my nephew and family in Charlotte you'll let me peek at your gardens. Hope it's when your Angel Trumpets are in bloom.

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #27 on:** April 13, 2007, 04:41:05 AM »

Kim she is lovely. I have to do a lot of improvising in my gardens too cuz what I want is out of my budget. Mostly tho I use old things. Antique pots and kettles, I have an antique trike, stuff like that.