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Grassless side yard

C. L. Sleger
Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

When I bought the house in 2003 the west side yard was a dry weedy strip with hard clay soil. The old path of limestone slabs provided the inspiration for a grassless side yard.

I dug everything up, amended the soil, and put in thyme, lavender, dianthus, creeping phlox and sedums. At first they looked like hair plugs:

Now, in late May and early June:

The garden is considerably taller in autumn. This is Zone 5 so you see lots of asters, goldenrod, grasses, and Autumn Joy sedum.

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  • ianna
    Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

    pretty. I too have removed my grass and replaced it with perennials

    Комментарии: 13

    • hoverfly - London
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      What a wonderful little garden. It's great to see how it has filled in - very inspirational!

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): hoverfly - London
    • lgteacher
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      How beautiful! Your love of plants is evident.

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): lgteacher
    • User
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      Wow! To someone like me whose garden is in the "hair plug" stage (great description of the look BTW) your garden is a huge inspiration.

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): User
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      Linda Greenberg Landscape & Design, LLC
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      As a professional landscape designer, I'm constantly working with small courtyards or pathway possibilities that will eliminate or lessen the footprint of caring for turf throughout the year. Your perennial garden is beautiful when in bloom, but I would also suggest adding formed plant materials like a Dwarf Boxwood that would carry your eye throughout the pathway. The Boxwoods will anchor the various 'chaotic' perennial spaces with evergreen form.

      Linda Greenberg, Landscape Designer

      704-995-7173

      linda@lglandscapes.net

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): Linda Greenberg Landscape & Design, LLC
    • posierosie_zone7a
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      So beautiful and so much variety and change throughout the seasons. Thank you for sharing.

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): posierosie_zone7a
    • SweetMonkeyCheese Z9 Tampa
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      Wow!

    • rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8
      Последние изменения: Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      C.L., how perfectly charming.

      Dwarf boxwood, Linda Greenberg? Really? Boring.

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
    • User
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      Your floral path draws me in! Very nice :)

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): User
    • User
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 8

      GORGEOUS! I had the same problem with a grassless side yard that was mostly marl soil -- impossible to dig or plant in for the most part. I started by planting a tiny red-leaf plum, then one by one, I started digging little holes and filling them with compost, planting and planting. I covered it with leaves every year and let them decompose. It took a long, long time (almost 10 years), but finally, I ended up with beautiful, black loamy soil that would grow anything and everything. I miss that house, but not the work of that big yard.

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): User
    • Kaillean (zone 8, Vancouver)
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 7

      I love it! It's beautiful!

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): Kaillean (zone 8, Vancouver)
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      Van Zelst Inc
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 7

      Beautiful work. I love the variety of heights and textures. You may want to sink some of those steppers into the earth so you don't trip on them.

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): Van Zelst Inc
    • teeka0801(7aNoVa)
      Год(а)/Лет назад: 7

      what an inspiration! I love natural looking gardening...it's harder than one might think! That's why I get SO upset when I see folks chopping down the staggered, natural forests and replacing with those rows of trees...yuck...and they get paid big bucks for this??!! It looks so fake, don't they realize it?

      Sorry, got side tracked....fabulous!!

      C. L. Sleger поблагодарил(а): teeka0801(7aNoVa)
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