Garden of the Day: Center Slope Evolution

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The garden submissions keep rolling in…We’ve had our Center Slope brownstone for twelve years. When we bought it, the back yard (15′ by 25′) had a deck built, but little landscaping. A friend recommended that we use her boyfriend as a gardening consultant. He built raised beds for us and planted some ornamental grass, hostas and a hydrangea. In the years since, we added central air conditioning, requiring some of the deck space be used for the A/C compressor unit. We’ve learned that ornamental grasses take over raised beds like a cancer, so we removed most of it. We purchased some terraced display stands from a gardening catalog, allowing us to add about two dozen terra cotta pots of various sizes. Some larger pots are being used for roses.

As of today, the hydrangea is flowering nicely, daylilies are opening, more each day, the coreopsis is just past its first bloom, the three dozen or so geraniums provide a nice amount of red, tomato plants have flowered, we’re pinching off some basil each day. A variety of other annuals (stock, snapdragons, etc.) are providing more color and cuttings for the kitchen table.

In the future, I’d like to add a fountain or goldfish pond.
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