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Driveway Garden, JUL 2003

I planted a garden in July, 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 juniper shrub finally died in the summer heat and I replaced it with a pair of coreopsis verticillata "Golden Shower" plants.

The driveway garden has the following plants:

The following pictures show the garden during July, 2003.



Lady Buddha
(26 JUN 03)

Lady Buddha contemplates her basket of sedum.



Blooming Yarrow
(2 JUL 03)

Blooming Yarrow
(2 JUL 03)

The yarrow are growing nicely, each of the different varieties adding their colors to the garden. The white and yellow are beautiful; the salmon colored yarrow is a little more orange than last year.



White Coneflowers
(2 JUL 03)

White Coneflower Bloom
(2 JUL 03)

White Coneflower Bloom
(4 JUL 03)

The coneflowers are growing like cabbages. The gaps are filling with yarrow and butterfly weed.



Butterfly Weed and Yarrow
(2 JUL 03)

Butterfly Weed
(4 JUL 03)

Butterfly Weed
(7 JUL 03)

Butterfly Weed
(12 JUL 03)

Butterfly Weed
(21 JUL 03)

The butterfly weed is producing healthy orange blooms. Dragonflies and butterflies hover over them constantly.



Coreopsis Verticillata
(21 JUL 03)

I replaced the dead juniper shrub with a pair of Coreopsis Verticillata "Golden Showers". It should grow into a nice mound among the cushion spurge.



Hydrangea
(12 JUL 03)

This transplanted hydrangea, courtesy of a friend of my mother in New York, is growing nicely in my back yard. It's only 10 inches tall, but it popped a single bloom as a foretaste of what is to come.
 
 

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