The Birth of Bonnie’s Flower Garden, Part 1

A big, boring wall of juniper is transformed into an extension of the garden filled with flowers

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Last workweek we share a marvellous section of Bonnie Phipps Moninger ’s garden in Boulder , Colorado ( zona 4/5)—if you missed that post , be sure to check it out here : The North Side of Bonnie ’s colourful Colorado Garden . We see the many meandering paths that take you to the different area of her garden and the beautiful walk traffic circle that create an incredible focal point . In that situation , Bonnie also advert a flower garden that bordered the walk circle , which she would go into more detail on in a future entry . Thankfully , Bonnie did not leave us waiting for long and today we get to explore that fabulous section of bloom and how it came to be .

Bonnie broke up this submission into two parts . Below you will receive photograph from the first outpouring of the garden ’s creation . Tomorrow we will be back in Boulder to see how the bloom garden filled in during late summertime as well as some muscae volitantes Bonnie sees way for improvement .

In 2006 we built a 19 ’ diam walking circle in our north side yard ( pictured below . ) We built it about 3 ’ in front of three beautiful Buffalo junipers(Juniperussabina‘Buffalo ’ , Zones 3–7)that were there when we moved in . But the Genista raetam kept growing and finally acquire into our walk circle . I restrain disregard them back each class and finally , they became an worthless sweater wall . So , in April 2020 , Raul , the gardener I work with , dug them out along with a few other plants that were there . It was awful how much space each juniper take up . I decide to redo the whole region into a flower bed since this is one of the few areas in our M that gravel a fair amount of sun , though not exactly full sunlight .

I designed the area myself and Raul did the heavy work and planting . I wanted a path that followed the curved shape of the walking circuit that led to a sitting area . I mapped it out with a rope . Planters commixture was brought in to berm both sides of the flower bottom . There ’s nothing like the look of a blank planting field !

This picture ( a pano ) and the next 2 are the first time of year ’s plantings of my “ Flower Garden ” The hard part for me is figuring out what to embed . I ’m not used to project areas with flush plant — I find their leafage is not as lush as the part sun / ghost plant . I was n’t sure what would expect good together , how marvellous & wide they would really be , and which ones would live . I did a deal of inquiry the year before and had my program .

There ’s nothing like a newly plant bed with fresh mulch !

A view from the sitting bench looking down the path . you may see the Netafim I use to irrigate the area .

The same opinion 2 year after and more fill in .

One of my favored movie of our spring Flower Garden in full blooming , in 2022 .

I am constantly looking for flower plants that have nice leaf as well as nice flowers . I specially like the leaf of paeony , Geum , ligularias ( in part sun ) , lupines , geranium , anemones , salvia , lady ’s mantle(Alchemillamollis , Zones 3–8),oakleaf sedum(Sedum hybridum , Zones 4–10),and kniphofia . Since my flower garden does n’t really get full Lord’s Day , some of the plant life I put in do n’t perform at their best . I ’m constantly add or bump off plant or moving them to better places . But when is any gardener ever done ? The orange Geum pictured here are called ‘ Totally Tangerine’(Geum‘Totally Tangerine ’ , Zones 5–7 ) .

The popular Coral Charm peonies(Paeonia‘Coral Charm ’ , Zones 4–8)along with lupin and genus Geum steal the show in June .

That ’s me ( left ) and my friend Judy have sport with the spring bounteousness from my garden .

These lupines are called Gladiator lupines(Lupinuspolyphyllus‘Gladiator ’ , Zones 3–9).They have pinkish and orangish in them .

dainty combination of genus Allium , poppy and Yellow Lace ® elderberry(Sambucusracemosa‘SMNSRD4 ’ , Zones 3–8 ) .

My garden is now 5 years old and I ’ve been changing it every twelvemonth . Some plants like Blue Fortune agastache(Agastache‘Blue Fortune ’ , Zones 5–9)and asters were way too tall to be in the front region . Some plant did n’t get enough sunlight so they did n’t front good or died . Each yr I ’m trying new things .

As I mention in the intro , this is just part 1 of Bonnie ’s meekness , and we will be insure how these plants filled in during belated summer tomorrow .

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