RE: My garden

Chris, your place looks so cool and inviting.  Lovely pictures!

Lynda
Zone 7 - West TN

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:22 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] My garden


Yeah. Nice garden. I like those views of the deck; it looks cool to me.

On Jul 3, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Kitty wrote:

> Chris, great photos.  What I really love about your plantings is that,
> even
> though you have some very special, new on the market plants that can 
> stand
> out, everything combined looks natural and very "at ease", not 
> contrived.
> Well, pots on the steps have to be contrived - they don't get there on

> their
> own - but the general feeling is very comfortable.
>
> Re Heucheras - mine tend to get sparse rather than fill out as the
> years
> progress.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Z5
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:47 AM
> Subject: [CHAT] My garden
>
>
>> OK, not much to look at, but I put some pictures of my yard up:
>>
>>    http://www.mallorn.com/~lindsey/yard/
>>
>> There's really not much focus on the beds and you can tell the photos
>> are
>> kind of impromptu (notice the garden house right through the middle 
>> of it
>> all?), but now Donna can stop bothering me.  :)
>>
>> The eggplant is growing in a pot and should be readyy for harvest;
>> it's
>> about 1.5 inches long now.
>>
>> The berry is a blackberry which it looks like I'll miss most of
>> because
>> of the holiday.  Hopefully the birds will like them!
>>
>> The sedge is Carex elata 'Aurea' with Impatiens planted in front.
>> Behind
>> it are Amethyst Mist and Green Spice coral bells, to the left is a
>> Strawberry Swirl coral bell, a Xanthorrhiza, a Crimson Star 
>> columbine, a
>> Tojen toadlily, and a Ghost fern all the way in the back.  In the
very
>> front there's some Cerastium tomentosum.  It doesn't flower there 
>> because
>> of the shade and moisture, but the leaves are a nice foil.
>>
>> The deck shots are taken from the farthest corner my yard.  You'll
>> notice
>> that I don't have much grass -- I pretty much killed it when I built 
>> the
>> deck and put in the irrigation system.  I'm putting in a new patio 
>> this
>> year to connect the deck with the side of the house and will probably

>> sod
>> what little space is left for grass then.
>>
>> The pots were shot a few weeks ago and have grown a lot since.
>>
>> Be nice!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> P.S.  And of course, you can see my deck-building process at
>>       http://www.mallorn.com/~lindsey/deck/
>>
>> http://www.hort.net/sHORTurl/                        Shorten your 
>> URLs!
>> http://www.hort.net/gallery/      3713 online plant photos and 
>> growing!
>> http://www.hort.net/gallery/date/2005-06-28/       The latest 
>> additions
>>
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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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