[This is a repost from 2021 - our first summer in NH. A lot has changed in that time, including the color of our house!]
Here's a picture I shared before of the backyard, really the side yard. There is a huge deck there. I've starting to think about where I want flower beds. Vegetable gardening is on hold for now though I may put a vegetable or two in a pot on the deck.
[Compare these photos to the ones
on this post from this year.}
Coming out of the slider to the left is this bed that had a raised bed frame in it on two sides only. Dan pulled that up, put it on the side of our road, and it disappeared to someone else's yard.
There are day lilies there, two kinds judging from the leaves. The daffodils came up at the bottom right corner as did irises. The strange "asparagus" like plant came up there on the bottom left corner.
There was mint showing itself too so I dug it up and potted it. The green pots have gloriosa daisies from Emily. The steps down to the deck make the perfect spot for pots.
I will be adding more potted flowers once we're passed the frost date here.
Looking right are steps down too. Once those old lilacs are removed I want to make this a flower bed with stone walkway though to grass.
I moved some of the irises to the front edge of the deck. There was something in this bed I remember from when we first saw the house. I thought I'd come across it in digging and I did. One bulb of some sort. I wondered if it was gladiolas but Emily says they don't winter over here.
In the bed on the other side there are Shasta daisies that were here. I added one lupine volunteer from Emily's garden.
We have this fence separating us from the road. I was thinking it would be great for a perennial garden but again Emily advised me to slow down as the leaves are not out yet and I can't know the shading until that happens. There are some perennials there and weeds of course.
I did transplant some day lilies, lupine and Columbine there and later Dan helped me move rocks to form a border.
Eventually these scrubby lilacs will go too and I should be able to extend the bed there.
Out front are two narrow beds on either side of the step.
Even though this faces east it's heavily shaded by the house except in the morning. Emily planted tulips here that are just now setting buds. There are hostas on either end and Siberian iris I think too. I also rounded up rocks to temporarily define the beds. The house will be painted in July and the front porch and lattice work will be stained. If I plant anything else there I wonder if it will survive that July activity.
On the north side of the house is this strip with the worst color mulch on it. Slowly there are hostas showing in spots. It would be a good place for some shade annuals but again what happens when the power washing, scraping and painting happens?
No flower beds planned for around the barn but wanted to share this huge bed of Siberian iris that's there.
Behind it is a clump of ferns, though I don't know what kind yet. I managed to dig up some of the ferns and move them to the fence bed but couldn't get under any of the iris. With the work planned for the barn and driveway, Dan says these plants will likely go.
So lots of planning, mostly in my head at present.
If you want to see what kind of garden I once had go
here. The D.P.P. I refer to in that early spring post was my Deer Prevention Plan. We moved from that house in June 2016 and I thought I'd given up gardening. I guess not because I'm looking forward to doing beautiful things here in NH.
[It's good for me to look back and see the progress I've made transforming the gardens in the 5 summers we have had here.]
