Re-landscaping to Shrubs and Perennials

by Rhonda Clements

I have been re doing the entire perimeter of the house and along our driveway which has a huge bulk head bed the entire length. It is just too much work, so removing things and planting things that are pretty and will return each year with little maintenance except pruning or cutting back in fall and spring. The climate has also changed here in the Seattle area, and we are able to grow and have many new things thrive! It is still a work in progress but it is getting there!

re landscaping to shrubs and perennials, flowers, gardening, landscape, perennial, succulents

This is the east side of the house where it is almost all shade, we also removed ugly arborvitae and put up a fence planted this last year, except the Rhody which I cut to the ground 2 years ago

this side of the house is all sun and it was all St Johns Wort, OMG what a nightmare to remove!!! Planted this last spring.

this is a new perennial bed we added along the fence line, the red shrub is weigela and should reach about 6 feet tall, we planted this last spring as well

The sunny east side and new rock path

one of the raised beds just starting to bloom

this is my front bed by the front door it is on the east side of the house so morning sun and afternoon shade

another bed with perennials

part of the rockery

a favorite combination of mine are pansies and nicotiana, my pansies come back every year

one of my many lilacs this one is Sensation

lithodora and succulents

visitors in the back yard, we have several very large for trees and they have been visiting for a couple years now, other and her child

we have lots of hummingbirds this is a Rufous, we only have them in spring and summer, the flower is Monarda

We have Anna's hummingbirds year round and we have many in our yard, ir you want hummers plant this Lucifer crocosmia the love it!

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Sharon Carson Dunham on Jun 22, 2014
Rhonda, you've done an extremely beautiful job....this is what I've been doing. Keep the annuals mainly in window boxes, hanging pots. The rest, perennials! Makes life a lot easier and enjoyable...winter is long here in NH so spring starts with an array of perennials that pop us. Worth putting the time into doing! I'm still at it!

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- Rhonda Clements on Jun 22, 2014
  @Sharon Carson Dunham I am still working on the back part of the yard, we put a veggie garden in the very back and I am planting low shrubs in front of it to provide a little break and we now have a whole area along a new cedar fence where we took out an ugly arborvitae hedge, so we need some greenery along that fence it is just way to prison like with nothing there since it is about 75 yrds long. But making some progress there and other places just filling holes now with perennials. I do annuals in hanging pots and boxes on the deck railing as well as a few in the front of one of the raised garden beds we built. I am so glad it is almost done though it has been a lot of hard work. Thanks for looking and commenting
  
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Farhan Sheikh on May 14, 2015
Such a lovely garden you have!

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- Rhonda Clements on May 14, 2015
  @Farhan Sheikh thank you so much, it has been a lot of hard work since I am doing it all myself
  
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