An Undisciplined Garden

A garden wild and beautiful

My name is Cheryl Henley . I have been gardening in the heavy , stony , clay ground of the Wasatch Mountain foothills at about 4000 foot for 30 years . My married man and I live on the easterly side of the scope , so days are poor even on the long summertime days as the sunlight plummets behind the mountains . But the beautiful sight and sportsmanlike air , as well as the little brook running in front of our theater , make the brusque - time of year and short - daytime challenge so worth it . I love taking garden photos , so I have right smart too many , but thought I would send some of last spring in prediction of the next time of year to come .

Every class as the snow starts to mellow out I announce to my husband that this year the garden will be discipline for certain ! But alas , the borders and beds stay topsy-turvy like the raging hawthorn and oaks growing all around them ( so much refinement ) , pretty but incursive plant seek to take over , and some plants just ca n’t take the dry atmosphere , intense sunlight , and Zone 5 dusty . Also , I neglect the “ lawn ” and keep go to excrete grass completely . And dandelions abound , early food for bee .

Some years snow does n’t melt until May , but last class it started to clear early in late March , and crocuses(Crocussieberi‘Tricolor ’ Zones 3–9 ) made their brave entryway .

Happily speadingScilla siberica(Zones 2–8 ) pop up through native gambel oak(Quercus gambelii , Zones 4–8 ) leave around a more intentional group of ‘ Tete - a - Tete’daffodils . Peach - leaved campanulas(Campanulapersicifolia , Zones 3–7 ) are also coming up . They spread like a earth cover with tall stems of blue and blank campanula later in the spring .

Helleborescarry on their show in the narrow shady garden behind the household . Behind them loom Mass ofBrunneramacrophylla‘Jack Frost ’ ( Zones 3–7 ) started from three small plants . Beyond the ‘ Jack Frost ’ are some hyacinths andepimediums . Some blowball leaves embarrass us from the right pic edge .

Primroses do pretty well and do n’t seem to mind the Lucius DuBignon Clay .

raw yellowed tulips came up in early May for their debut season .

No discipline here , just a confect - color celebration of tulip andMuscaribetween the Malus pumila trees . They will be followed by some fern , Hosta , genus Epimedium , and lowcotoneaster .

One of my favorite shrubs , Darts Goldninebark(Physocarpus opulifolius , Zones 3–7 ) , lights things up with some daffodils and ‘ Princess Irene ’ tulips .

The honor of apple blossoms — it ’s easy to tell they are in the roseate family unit .

The new scandalmongering tulips evolved into this beam fondness as they opened . Amazing !

endearing wiry epimediums ( probablyEpimedium × warylense‘Orange pansy ’ , Zones 5–8 ) easy disseminate . This silver dead nettle(Lamiastrum galeobdolon‘Herman ’s Pride ’ , Zones 4–9 ) stays in a cultivated clump with prissy yellow flowers .

Snowdrops(Galanthus)by our oldest homemade rustic bench .

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