Garden tour

Everyone's showing off their gardens, now it's my turn!

My deck plants are doing well.  On the top deck I have two planters with big colorful impatiens, and one with wave petunias.  On the lower deck I have these two whiskey barrels (from Grandpa Hubicz) full of mixed up annuals - whatever was left over!  They are both so pretty!  The sweet potato vine is going crazy!

The pond is pretty scraggly.  This is Chris' domain, and he hasn't been home much this summer.  But we have lots of frogs, and the waterfall has been running smoothly all summer long, so I'll call it a success!

Our woods planting area in the back yard is a disaster.  Too many "wildflowers" run amok.  This is on my fall to-do list.

Another view of the pond, looking toward the deck.  When Chris gets all of the rocks in place, I can start moving plants around.

Our veggie garden!!

Wax beans on the left side of the path, as well as baby carrot plants.  The right side of the path has tomatoes, sunflowers, basil, sweet banana peppers, and parsley.

Another view of the garden.  A bunny or woodchuck snuck in one night when someone left the door open, and the little bugger ate ALL of the leaves off our cucumber plant!  See it along the back?  So sad!

One of our supersized sunflowers.  The trellis fence is 5' tall, for scale.

The girls' garden is having a rough year.  Animals have been brutal.  We really need to either fence this off for them, or stop trying to grow veggies here.  See Megan's gnome collection?

Looking from the girls' garden towards our front door.  The wave petunias are happy this year!

Front of our house.  The impatiens around the birch tree have been nibbled on all year long, so they are still tiny.  But there's nice color all along the front of the house, which is nice!

Closer view of front porch.  Pink begonias by the boxwood.  The impatiens in the planters are getting nice and big.

Looking at the Sarah garden from the driveway.  The debris at the lower left is due to a failed construction project.  Chris took out a big arborvitae and planned on putting in a little patio and lattice fence for our garbage cans.  It hasn't happened yet.  :(  The shrubs are all doing great.  From the right - lilac, butterfly bush, magnolia, rose of sharon, and lilac.

The left side of the pathway shows the grandma rose and the Sarah rose.  The Japanese maple is still gorgeous.  Beyond it are a clematis, a huge bleeding heart, and yuccas that bloomed this summer.

Closer view of the rose of sharon from Erica.  This is a bad picture, but hopefully you can see that it is covered in flowers right now!

You can see that we're having a decent year despite the brutal heat and drought!  I need to do a better job of keeping up on the weeding/trimming/edging, but it looks pretty good considering how much the yard has been ignored lately.  It's always a work in progress, right??  :)