What a beautiful garden!! You did a FANTASTIC job!!! :)

~Wendy / sassyb.

WOW!

You have a beautiful and peaceful looking garden. I love that castor bean plant. Everything looks healthy. Thanks for sharing your gardens with us.

Don

Absolutely lovely. Thank you for posting. I have a rather small, in-town lot and your photos are an inspiration! Very nicely done!

Lisa

STUNNING!!!!! .....

Lynne

yOU CAN TELL YOU PUT A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO YOUR LAY OUT,LOVE THE WAY YOU FILLED IN BETWEEN THE HARD SCAPES.
Oops, sorry about the caps.
I can't believe you got so much bloom in such a short amount of time, I must be doing something wrong.
Did you make the huge hosta leaves in your path?Beautiful!
I love seeing every ones gardens, don't you.You did a fantastic job.
cAROL

The power of wintersowing - AND the power of mariana!

You did a masterful job!

PV

Thank you everyone for the kind words.
Carol, you are not doing anything wrong, just have patience for the perennials. Last year when I moved here, I brought with me the winter-sowed seedlings, planted them, and they stayed small and not much blooms from them. This year I sowed annuals too, so that's why it looks full. I had so many seedlings that now, three other neighbors have lots of flowers blooming from what I shared with them.
In the first 2 pictures from last year, you can see the shape in the grass where I wanted to put another flower bed, and continue with the path, but my husband wanted some grass, and honestly I think it would have looked too busy that way.

I made the cement leaves using rhubarb leaves, and that column is made with hypertufa. My hosta leaves were too small last year, so I made smaller cement leaves and gave them away to neighbors and friends.

Whistle, whistle, clap, clap! Well done, Mariana!

How beautiful. Good job.

Caryl

I seoond drippy - just lovely.

That's a truly WOWSER tranformation...just gorgeous.

Congrats on beautiful outcome of all your hard work.

Ever wonder what it would cost for a professional gardener/landscaper to do that???? Priceless!!!

Tell the kitty he/she has no reason to hide but instead should be sitting proud in the midst of it all!

Tiffy, you were my inspiration with your last post where you gave us a nice tour of your garden. Beautiful place you have!

If you can believe, the path and the patio stones are made from recyclable materials. Digging in the garden I unburied the flag stones, and the bricks and cement stones were found in the bushes across the street where more than 50 years ago a brick factory was closed down.

Everything is absolutely beautiful! You have done a wonderful job! The power of winter sowing...oh, I can't wait to get started! Thank you for sharing.

Are you kidding?All recycled, boy, you are one lucky lady.I dream of finding bricks,and stone,lol
We did unearth a few huge boulders, when we built our house,Love them.Really Big ones.
I may have to do some of the leaves this winter,I would love a whole path of them, you really did a nice job, how thick are they?
And, you made the colum also?How did you get the design on it, can you post a closeup?
I keep going back,and looking.
cAROL

Thanks everyone again!
Carol, how are you going to keep the fresh leaves over the winter? I made mine with fresh leaves. They are one and a half inches thick.

I got my inspiration for the column, or better say, I tried to copy Elder G. Jones's art. I hope it's OK to post his website link here. I know for sure he doesn't mind anybody getting inspiration from his work as long as is for your own use and not for sale. Here is a close up of something similar on his website: http://sandpudding.com/all_pudn_vws/flamp_rot.htm
and here is his website link: http://sandpudding.com/
If you click on my column picture it will take you to my photobucket album where there is another picture of it
Please contact me using my e-mail on My Page for more details and lots of bookmarks I can share with you. I don't want to bore anybody with unrelated talk

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I can relate to having nothing and then having all the gardens for pennies...

You did a wonderful job and feel proud! It's beautiful!

Carrie

Oh my, what a difference a year makes! It is absolutely beautiful and looks so lush and healthy. I bet your hubby is so proud of you. And I bet your neighbor's love having all those flowers shared with them. Did you plant them for them or they planted themselves?

I'm wondering where are these leaves everybody is talking about and I scrolled back over and found them. Neato! Now who do I know that has big leaves like that. What about elephant ear leaves? I think I could talk a man out of one of his big leaves.

Such dramatic changes in before and after photos! I was expecting to see a bunch of small seedlings, and a few blooms, but instead was treated to gorgeous, established looking beds.

You did a great job with plant placement too. I'm on year 4 of wintersowing, and I still end up with things at the front that are too tall, and need to be moved.

Pippi, I too had to go back and look for the leaves, LOL. Love them!

Thank you for sharing your garden with us!

Bonnie