Kathleen’s New Meadow Garden in Washington

An overgrown yard gets transformed into a cohesive meadow landscape with a steady succession of blooms

felicitous Monday GPODers !

We ’re embark on the week with some fabulous garden inspiration , particularly for fresh gardener or anyone having to originate from lettuce . Kathleen Shelman is pay us a detailed look at how she ’s constructing a stunning unexampled hayfield garden . From the wild , overgrown yard she started with , to the prepping and planning process , and finally the stage of growth in its first farm time of year .

My name is Kathleen Shelman , and I am in the process of creating a Modern garden in Port Townsend , Washington . We are in zone eight , with grunge that look to be a mixture of sand , some loam , and many rock . After garden on an acre outside of Portland , Oregon for 37 long time , we decided to downsize to a twenty-five percent acre lot . Half of the lot will be home and hardscape , but the rest is mine to garden . I loved my previous perennial mete , but was ready for a change , so I decide to plant a meadow that would be a admixture of my pet more chance perennials and grasses . My end was to create a small landscape that would expect interesting for at least 9 months of the year and would want little if any staking or redaction . My coloring palette would be given to blues and purple with accents of yellow and orange , which I have in the main cling to , although some of my other favorites have worked their fashion in . The fall before the big move I take many , many cuttings and naval division so my meadow has been essentially free to me . Here is the arena , approximately 30 x 30 , before we begin .

We had previously removed the savage roses which completely encompass the yard , and had the ground till to a depth of about 18 inch . We also contribute several truckloads of compost .

Uncharacteristically for me , I made a plan ground on social organisation , colour , and bloom clip . We marked a grid of 36 in squares with four plant in each square . There were issues . We found that three rows ask to be deleted , which leave me with a bunch of extra plants which I wanted to let in somewhere . There was also an inauspicious dump of starts in which about five row were mixed up . This was in March , so I was not exactly sure what everything was , but make out that I would find out . We would call for water since Port Townsend is in a rainwater shadower even though the climate is cool , so we installed a drip mould system with 30 rows of 30 foot drip tube with emitters every 12 inches .

Here is the hayfield with everything planted and get to grow .

By June , thing were require off . I was surprised by both the size and vigor of almost everything .

Through July , August , and September , there was a taking over of bloom . In some cases , I found that plants that had been comparatively well - behaved in Oregon had become thugs in the enriched soil . I have had to dispatch almost all of the asters and most of the sunflowers andboltonias . The Canadian burnet(Sanguisorba canadensis , Zones 3–8)is on probation .

Now in October , the grasses are more seeable although I have a surprising number of rosiness left . I am attributing the long blooming season for many plants to the relative deficiency of temperature variation here near the weewee .

I am count forrard to get word the meadow with frost and hopefully a little Charles Percy Snow . It will all be rationalise to the land in February .

This has been a really interesting experience for me and I ’m looking forward to the next season when some of my friend that did not choose to bloom this year will be joining the group .

give thanks you for share your incredible garden transformation , Kathleen ! get a raw garden from dent can be a daunting endeavor , but you ’ve utterly illustrated what can be attain in a year with the right right prepping , planning , and experimentation .

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