Show us Your Home for The Summer
Many of us here in the Northeast have shown the photos of the heavy snow accumulations we get in winter. We do know there is color in the dormant vegetation underneath. Part of our distress with the snow and cold is we do know how pleasant our yards can be when in full bloom.
We have a yard where there is always a pleasant color on a bush or flower in bloom. It was part of the reason we appreciated the house when we bought it.
Trying to do an overhead, I'll try to offer a glimpse of what we enjoy.
Area 1 is a rock garden at the entrance to the driveway. Within the garden is flox, which offers up the light blue and pink colors in earl spring. There are also daffodils within the garden for the early color and the bush that backs the garden gives up a pretty pink flower in full bloom.
When the flox dies off, I cut it back some to plant impatiens and begonias for summer. At the end of summer when the annuals are about spent is when we put in fall mums which take us through the frost.
Along the driveway (Area 2) are day lilies and some larger lilies as well as quick blooming lily of the valleys, which are very fragrant
As we get to the top of the driveway, Area 3, usually in early April, we have this tree, which resembles a willow tree, but offers up pink flowers before the leaves come in.
At the top of the driveway, at the same time is the flowering dogwood which gives us a lot of brilliant white, but far different than the white we have in January and February.
Area 4 is the front entrance to our house, which has flower beds along the sidewalk which offer tulips, and daffodils in early spring, and then the azaleas in late April. The entrance itself is framed by 2 dwarf Japanese maples, one red and orange and their give their colors through the fall.
Area 5 is the upper right corner of our front yard where 2 large rocks are covered by a rind of white laurel with a rhododendron bush mixed into the middle.
Area 6 is the side of the house with a retaining wall keeping all in check. This has early blooming daffodils and some tulips, with a quick rush of color by a red peony bush. The middle has these astilbie mostly pink but some white as well. Heading this wall of color is a pink rhododendron.
The rear area 7 is near the deck. In early spring we have this ornamental tree which gives up deep white blooms. Below it area hostas on one side and along the walk on the left are more day lilies. On the deck itself we keep the planters with different annuals, such as marigolds, impatiens and geraniums. Just off the deck are rose of Sharon trees with white flowers on one side and pink on the other. In addition, there is a low laurel which gives us pink flowers when in bloom .
Area 8 is my shed, which has several hydrangeas on one side, and some raspberry bushes as well.
Just to the right of the shed are some rhododendrons.
The area ground cover is pachysandras which do give up a small white flower in early spring.
Along the back of the garage are some additional hostas plants and some mountain laurel as well.
These are the colors that offer us warm weather color and make us long for the white of winter to leave so that the real colors we appreciate thrive for us.
This post is written for the June Challenge, Show us your summer colors
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