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Driveway Garden, APR 2003

I planted a garden in June, 2002 along the back of my driveway atop a stone retaining wall. I was trying for a drought-tolerant dragonfly garden and it seems to be working. The garden is a strip of yarrow, butterfly weed, and coneflowers surrounding a juniper shrub and wormwood. The yarrow varies from pale yellow to bright yellow to salmon/apricot.

The driveway garden has the following plants:

  • Yarrow (Achillea Apricot, Huffnung, JungFrau, Martina)Sprouting
  • Wormwood (Artemesia Ponticum) Dead?
  • Butterfly Weed (Asclepias Tuberosa) Nothing Yet
  • White Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea White Swan) Sprouting
  • Stonecrop (Sedum Kamtschaticum 'Variegatum') Sprouting
  • Stonecrop (Sedum Spectabile 'Neon') Sprouting
  • Juniper shrub Sprouting

The following pictures show the garden on April 27, 2003. It's just starting to sprout after the snow finally melted.

There's not much to see yet, so click here to see the garden back in July, 2002.

Yarrow

The weedy yarrow (and some coneflowers) are beginning to sprout.



Coneflower

The coneflowers surrounding the yarrow are sprouting nicely.



Juniper shrub

This little juniper shrub is still among the living.



Sedum

The two stonecrop plants are sprouting nicely. I left the stems out for a little winter effect, but three feet of snow cover spoiled that. On the other hand, the stems made good "rulers" to measure the snow melt.



Lady Buddha

Lady Buddha watches over the spreading sedum. Winter was not kind to Lady Buddha's complexion.
 
 

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