MEADOW GARDEN

        The Meadow garden took shape from a pasture we used to have baled for our goats, who have since passed away. This garden contains the beds of daylilies which are now for sale. There are three round flower beds, two of which ring old concrete fence posts salvaged by my nephew from the golf course where he works. These beds are planted with tansy, catmint, and native clematis plants. The larger center flower bed consists of an inner bed which rings a statute set on a pillar, depicting four faces, each representing the four seasons and the four compass points. This bed is planted with flowers and shrubs representative of the four seasons. Evergreen shrubs, daffodil bulbs, Columbine, daylilies, Sedum, and the ornamental grass Quaking Oats, give this bed year round interest. This central bed is surrounded by four concrete benches and four pie shaped beds. These pie shaped beds are planted with German bearded iris, ornamental grasses, butterfly bushes, Joe Pye weed, daylilies hybridized by Dr. Benzinger, Cup Plant, bronze fennel, bee balm and blue globe thistle. All of the plants are a good food source for bees, birds, and butterflies. These beds are designated as “INSECTORY’ which provide habitat and a food source for native insects, birds and small mammals.

 

In the fall of 2008, I added five new boxwood groupings as under plantings to pink flowering cherry trees. Each planting is rectangular in shape and each is planted with a different variety of boxwood. In the center of each rectangle is a euonymous bush, which will be shaped into a pyramid and is under planted with native blue violets. Also planted in this area are pink lilacs and pink daylilies. An old fashioned swing is placed in this area so one can sit and look out over the daylily beds.