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Three Hosta Gardens - Garden 2

13 years ago

Garden #2 is Faye’s Garden

Faye’s Garden is amazing! It’s amazing in it’s beauty and growth and inspired planting but it seems unbelievable that it is only really beginning in its second year. That’s the Hosta part. She did have a lovely perennial garden with 2 ponds and a couple of hostas before. The picture below taken in the fall of 2010 shows what was in place at the beginning of 2011. I gave her some divisions and duplicate plants in 2011. She created the “First Tree” garden under the Silver Poplar or Silver Cottonwood. She got more interested during the year and picked up a few more over the summer and tucked them in around the existing gardens.

In the fall she decided to take advantage of a mature division sale from the eastern Canada nursery Hosta Geek. She ordered lots. She had to make space for them so one new large bed was made and additional space added to others. Spring of 2012, just one year ago, those fall division started coming up, more plants followed and more beds. There was no stopping her after that.

Last fall she ordered again and added three more large beds and expanded the rest. In a little over a year her garden looks like a park. She has a green thumb like you would not believe. She probably has green fingers, wrists and elbows too. So far this year she’s filled in the large pond to plant more hostas gotten rid of half of the vegetable garden, added a seating area under a sunshade pergola and one in front of First Tree Garden.

Each project is the” last one” but it remains to be seen if that’s ever going to be true!

Fortunately she has such wonderful open space to expand into. I’m fortunate to have a front row seat for this inspiring garden.

Comments (13)

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Such bold and dramatic changes. I don't have any room like that.. But even if I did I can't imagine the scope of the job.. What beautiful changes already and she has only started..

    thanks again for the pictures and story.

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Thank you for sharing your front row seat. How wonderful it is to have someone so close to you share your passion.

    Faye's gardens are spectacular, I look forward to watching them mature!

    Gesila

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    What a lot of work it must have been to make such quick changes. It's already very beautiful!

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Lovely, enjoyed seeing the evolution of the gardens.

    Paul

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    It does look like a park! A Hosta Park! How wonderful she has found her passion. We all can appreciate the hard work. She has made a beautiful transformation.

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Awesome, and well documented, Myrle. Faye may be new to the hosta game, but she is no newbie at gardening. I recognized one of the rocks in the bed she created last fall I think it was, and if it disappears, you might want to check south Alabama for it.

    It is fantastic to notice the size of the equipment she uses or maybe her DH uses, to achieve the results. Her DH is an award winning enabler who is gracious in hauling in loads of soil and mulch and rocks and who knows what else. Then I noticed the trench which looks like a possible water pipe to the bed. The scale of everything is appropriate to the expansive landscape and the general environment of the location in Canada.

    I am inspired by all three gardens presented. I am also enamored of the British Colombia area, and hope one day to experience it for myself. When we take the "Orient Express" ....really Amtrak across the continent from east to west northern route, that is one area we absolutely MUST visit.

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Moc the trench you see is the unfinished area where we are putting the pea gravel . Myrle just got there before we completed the latest project. I look at my water stand pipe and may have to make a wishing wheel or something to hide it too.. stand by, I may not be done yet lol No luck in water lines for me, I have to water with overhead or by hand. Tough job but someone has to do it. Retirement is such hard work!
    Thanks for your viewing, I really appreciate it.
    Faye

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Your garden is beautiful. I enjoyed the virtual tours of each one. You guys love in a beautiful area that is obviously well suited for growing hostas.

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Mocc, would love to see you visit us. You can see two gardens for the price of one.

    A Wishing Well for the watering, humm you wrote this yestseday. I assume it will be done by this afternoon?!!

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Thank you very much showing this garden too. I watched its progress in earlier postings and am amazed how well this project continues, imagine how it will look in 5 years with mature plants. Bernd

  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Wonderful job and in such a short time. I, too, cannot wait to see it as it matures.

  • 4 years ago

    I hadn't seen these pictures for some time and McTavish ( Myrle) emailed me this posting. 10 or so years later and my back is hurting now but I appreciate seeing what has transpired. Now it is in desperate need of thinning and I have started this a few days ago. It may be completed but not in the time slot I did it in 10 years ago. What was I thinking? Rocks in my yard or rocks in my head maybe


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