Flowers

[msmemory_archive]

(As much for my memory as anything.)
I got the quick garden tour from the house seller today. She's a Garden Club member (am I intimidated yet?), so I think she was pleased and flattered that it was one of the queries I had about the property.

In only vague order, the following are growing in the back and side yards:
Forsythia, lilacs, perennial geraniums (pink), summer phlox, sedum, clematis, trumpet vine, wisteria, hydrangea, black-eyed Susan, "wagelia"?, japanese iris, boxwood, peonies, mallow, ornamental grasses, hosta, pinks, lupines, raspberries, blueberries, concord grapes, rose of sharon, mock orange, orange daylilies, pink lilies, japanese pompoms, money plants, 2 hollies, rhododendron, azalea, some other things she didn't remember what/where she had put in, and miscellaneous evergreens.

Many of the plants are one-of, that she had gotten cuttings or trades from other garden club members, hence the variety.

Comments

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Holy crow! For the first time in ages, I just got "garden envy"... :)

Wisteria will attract lots and lots of bees though - as will the grapes. How close are the arbors, if they're up on latticework, from the house?

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

The grape plant (singular) is well down the lawn, on the far side of the vegetable patch. The wisteria (also singular) is in a pot near the deck.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Very cool. My late grandmother used to have a grape arbor (pre-hurricane Gloria) that leaned partly against her back porch. In the summertime, the carpenter bees would be out and about, battling each other in midair, and drilling into the wooden posts, where the hive was. Similarly, the overripe fruit dropping to the ground attracted plenty of yellowjackets and wasps, which were not as friendly.

But oh, the smell of fresh grapes.... :)