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Welcome to The Garden!
When we bought this property in February of 2000, the real incentive for me was the two acres of potential garden surrounding the house. The woodland and mature trees were breathtaking, but there were a lot of overgrown shrubs, poison ivy, honeysuckle, and plain expanses of lawn. We have worked dilegently to remove the poison ivy, to limit the honeysuckle to a few corners, and to break up the lawn areas with garden spaces. | ||
| We now have the garden divided into several main areas: the woodland, featuring the creek, ferns, dogwood, and a spring display of forsythia and daffodils which were here when we bought the house; the moon garden, just beginning to take shape, with abelia and a southern magnolia; the north lawn, where we play croquet, which is surrounded with borders of roses, perennials, and other shrubs; the rose garden and potager, featuring many old garden roses; the south lawn, still in the planning stages; the herb garden, with a shrub border and beds of herbs; the front garden, where all the most vividly colored flowers are concentrated to compliment the yellow stucco of the house; and the Japanese garden, featuring a large Japanese maple planted by previous residents.
The garden is still, and I imagine will always be, a work in progress. Follow me as I show you around and introduce you to the roses...
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