My Backyard Garden - Details and pics!

[partly]

I have a little garden by my home. It's a garden in the British/city usage of the word, as is it's mostly flowers and containers and the focus on being a nice place to sit and relax. I'm used to the farming version of garden, which is a large plot of land laid out in rows where you grow food to eat and can. That type of garden is out at my mom's house as I don't have room for it by me.

I've gotten smart enough to want to remember what plants I have from year to year, so I'm putting all the details here. But first I'll dazzle you all with some general pictures of my relaxing backyard:



More pics and list of all the things I planted this year:

General flower bed pictures:


Three Planters:
Grass: Purple Fountain Grass - Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum'
Flower: Lantana - Lantana camara Variety: Bandana cherry
Flower: Osteo or African Daisy - Osteospermum hybred Varieties: One each of Melon Symphony, Orange Symphony and Lemon Symphony.
Vine: Vinca Maculata - Vinca Major


Added to the Garden:
Vine: Black-eyed Susan Vine - Thunbergia alata Variety: Orange Wonder
Vine: Ivy - Hedera hybrid Variety: Gold Child
Flower: Strawflower - Bracteantha (Xerochrysum) bracteata Variety: Fiery Orange


Hanging Pot:
Flowers: Wave Petunia - Petunia X hybrida Variety: Blue Spreading
Flowers: Supertunia - Petunia Hybrid Variety: Vista Silverberry


Hanging Pot:
Herb: Chocolate Mint - Mentha x piperita 'Chocolate' (I'm thinking mojitos). I'll add a pic later!

Tire:
Plant: Coleus - Solenostemon scutellarioides Variety: Solar


Pot
Grass: Wi-Fi Grass - Isolepis cernua



Pot:
Flower: Lobelia - Lobelia erinus Variety: Regatta Midnight Blue


I also planted two bush tomato plants, one bell pepper plant ('Big Bertha'), four flowering kale ('nagoya mix'), a container of mixed lettuce, some watermelons (because Myr wanted then) and a pot of gourds ('Crown of Thorns'), although we may run out of time before those last two can produce.

So who wants to come over and visit, sit in the garden and drink a mojito or two?

Comments

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have a fire thingy!!!!!

(Nice plants, too, BTW!)

[partly.livejournal.com]

Yes. And we've had a fire already this year.

If I promise to have one when you come, will you come and visit?