My Garden 2010

New Vegetable Plot

New Rock Garden

Although we have the new Student Exhibition Gardens, we are still keeping our gardens at the row, which I think is great. It has been such a good learning experience and a great chance to experiment with things. This year I changed my vegetable garden around a bit to allow for better hose accesibility and just to change things up in general. I’ve changed my ornamental garden as well this year. I left most of my perennials and moved them around a bit, planted in some Amsonia hubrichtii and an Aquilegia canadensis, and the rest of the circular path I had last year has been transformed in to an ampitheatre style rock garden. I have been really interested in trying out some mosses and succulents which are filling in the rock spaces. I am really happy with the way it turned out and I think it will also be interesting to see if it can stand the test of low watering needs. I anticipate the succulents will need less water than the mosses but that is the fun part…now I get to play around with them…

We’ve come a long way…in a month!

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It has been a whirlwind of a month!! Sometimes I had to check and see if my head was on straight! Not only have we made a huge amount of progress in our Student Exhibition Gardens, which I might add are finished-but I have also been busy in my garden on the row. During our Landscape Construction class, the PG class of 2011 was split up into each quadrant and in our quadrant we have Carolyn Scott and David Sincavage. I am very fortunate to have landed this group. Not only have Deb and I worked incredibly well together, but it has been so great to have Carolyn and David on board with us. We couldn’t have done it without them. Carolyn helped me to put together our containers and in literally two days, we had the better portion of the garden planted. I am so pleased with how it turned out, and the other student’s gardens look fantastic as well.