Kathy’s Garden Transformation in Sacramento

Impatiently creating a new garden

Last calendar week Kathy Sandel sharedher former garden in Calabasas , California , and today we ’re back visiting her current garden in Sacramento :

“ Here are pics of my Sacramento rear garden . Not as tractable because much of it can not be enjoyed or even viewed from inside the planetary house . It is a typical rear garden which has no persuasion . However it is moderately in its own way . I have struggled with this garden . I moved here at the end of summer 2020 in good order in the middle of the pandemic . I had been retire from landscape design about 5 year . As long as I had my Calabasas garden I did n’t miss it . I am also an artist , so I just decoct on painting . But , moving here I miss my garden thru that first long cold wintertime and became very raring to start . And I had a hard time reigning myself in , I want colour and fragrancy right away !

So I won some and I lost some fights with myself . I have to laugh . I was everyone ’s nightmare of a node . I desire too many varieties , had too many objectives , could scarcely say no to a beautiful plant life even when it was decidedly confutative . And have had to redo my mistakes . My contractile organ who has worked with me for many years was wringing his hands ! He saw I was in a febrility of purchasing . Now , I am bear to go back and simplify . And because I use almost all perennials and no annuals , my winter garden looks very unlike than my summertime garden . What seem very empty in the wintertime without C is very full to run over in the spring and summer . So it is a very vernacular mistake to judge a garden in the wintertime . I am no longer near my older wholesale and retail garden who get laid me and where I could stroll through of an afternoon if I felt the need . The garden I have to use here is across town , so I began looking online that first wintertime . The delivery companies have to know me the winter ! ”

This is how the space set out . Very bare bones .

And here … bastard weed .

Here is the side yard with several citrus and the stain handle in expectant chunks of woods in an attempt to fight back off Mary Jane . I hated the forest mulch and murder all if it and also removed the fake grass . This side face up northward .

Putting up treillage . And building some coloration and foundation garment . I was so impatient !

The rear garden face westward . The Dominicus was blinding . This dead reckoning is the north west quoin .

Beginning a path .

eventually , drip irrigation and the beginning of a mixed bag of ground covers . I did n’t know which would be able to plow both summertime heat and winter stale and wet . So I weave several and decide to let them show me which would live on .

add some color .

More plantings and container bringing color .

start to take in .

pile of the ground book binding are happy , and have filled in this space nicely .

blush wine and vervain ( Verbenahybrids , Zones 8 – 11 or as annuals )

rosebush bringing sweetened pink blooms to the party .

A diversity ofSedum , a succulent ground covert , Plus the lime colored ground cover is aCeanothus(Zone 9 – 11).Ceanothusare always a gamble , but when they are happy they thrill .

reckon out at the garden from the sit area .

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