Colors of my garden

[mnhtnbb]

Shot yesterday looking toward the slightly red sky of sunset.
From the left, potted yellow pansies and the row of red azaleas. I've let English primrose go wild in the stone path, which will be pink blooms before long. Climbing pink rose on the trellis is Zephirine drouhin. Large purple plants on either side of the steps is lavender and the flat purple mass next to the lavender is chocolate chip bugleweed . Creeping purple phlox on the upper level toward the fence. Still a few yellow daffodils in bloom up against the retaining wall.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. ohm myyy.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Beautiful!!

The colorful flowers … what a sight for sore eyes. We’re still waiting for a decent spring here.

You put in a lot of hard work there!

[mnhtnbb]

3. It's designed to be a spring garden

at its most colorful. Once the red azaleas are in bloom --like now--it really pops.

I had help getting it planted. And I have help getting the mulch laid every year.

[Duncanpup]

4. Very beautiful

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I love the lavender. I used to have in my former yard, I miss these a lot, as they come back every year.

Beautiful, and thanks for sharing!

[applegrove]

6. I love a good rock garden. My dad used to build stone walls

for his gardens. He helped build on in his dad's back yard. He built one in his first home. He build one at the cottage (no cement, 3 feet high and it is still standing 55 years later). Thanks for the memory jog.

You must love it. So pretty.

[mnhtnbb]

7. I really enjoy rock gardens, too.

My parents made one at the house where I grew up in NJ
We had one at our house in Chapel Hill, and when we rebuilt after the fire there in 2007, we extended the rock wall to make more to go along with the design of the new house. Real rock.
When I bought this house in a new development in 2020, the lot next door was graded quite a bit higher than mine. I was going back and forth with the builder about the angle of the drop between the two lots and about to hire a lawyer to make the builder put in a retaining wall, when I came over one weekend to look at the progress on the construction of my house and voila! There was the wall, with no input from me about it. The retaining wall actually is on the neighbor's property. But the way our courtyards are set up, I can landscape within parameters of the CC&R's, or, with approval from the HOA Architecture Review Committee for something like the rose trellis.
So, it's not the rock garden I'd have if I were in complete control of the space, but it will do.

Happy to have stirred your memories.