From Cheryl’s Garden: Garden 9 – The Bird Garden

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This theme garden is for the birds.  There are lots of bird friendly shrubs, a bird bath, bird houses, bird feeders and even a hummingbird stepping stone.  There was a lone maple tree in our backyard and needing another … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Garden 8 – The Center Garden

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This garden sits in the center of our half moon driveway.  The landscape bed with its stone edging was there when we bought the house and it also had rotten granite stones like the Ally Mae Garden as the mulch.  After … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Gardens: Week 7: The Ally Mae Garden

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This week's tour is one of my favorite gardens the "Ally Mae Garden."  The garden is about 50' by 20' and has a lot of shade plants.  When we moved to this property, this garden consisted of two ash trees, nine spireas, … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 6 – The Music Garden

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What does 'All That Jazz', 'Blue Danube', 'Radar Love, 'Rhythm and Blues' and 'Dancing Queen' have in common?  These are all cultivars in my Music Garden.   This next garden is dedicated to my son, the musician.  Over the … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 5 – Conifer Garden

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Welcome to week five and a tour of the Conifer Garden.   The bed is anchored by two very large spruce trees with an assortment of evergreen or conifer shrubs and trees.  Year one the garden consisisted of the anchor … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 4 – The 50 Garden

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Welcome to week four of the tour of my 13 gardens.  This garden is ten years old and was created to block the neighbor's horse barn from our view when sitting on the deck.  We planted ten Lonicera tatarica 'Arnold Red' … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 3 – Delaney’s Garden

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Welcome to Week 3 with Delaney's Garden.  This garden was started in 2005 and named after my then 3 year old stubborn niece Delaney who would only wear the color pink.   I decided to use shades of pink and lime green to … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Week 2 – Makenna’s Garden

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This week I will spotlight another garden in my series "13 Gardens in 13 Weeks."  Makenna's Garden has a lot of pink, lime green and white flowers with garden art of butterflies and ladybugs.  My niece, Makenna said at … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: 13 Gardens in 13 Weeks

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For the next thirteen weeks, I will be taking you on a tour of my gardens.  Each week I will showcase one of our thirteen gardens.  We have been in our home on one acre since 2001 and have been working on creating gardens … [Read more...]

From Cheryl’s Garden: Gardening Goals for 2013

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January is always a good time to reflect on last year's gardening experiences.  The holiday decorations are taken down and the house is somewhat clean so now it's time to read  or reread all those gardening magazines and … [Read more...]