All my gardens have names, mostly because I keep a notebook with plant names, planting dates and other notes on each of them and need to keep them straight. This is the hillside garden. It is in my front yard on a slope that borders my neighbor's yard. It gets really great sun exposure which is good and bad. Plants that love the sun and some dryness do well there, but some plants find it too harsh.
Over the years this garden has changed quite a bit. When we moved in it was not a garden but a hillside covered in weeds. I put a black tarp over it for about year and then seeded it with Zinnias. It was nice at first, but got of hand and weedy, so much for a year of putting up with that black tarp. In retrospect, it would have been better just to dig the weeds out and add some new soil. That's how I have handled each section as it has grown over the years.
For a while I didn't consider it a garden, we just planted grass and forgot about it. There was the crepe myrtle down at the end, and two holly bushes that we just couldn't get rid of after several attempts so I finally gave up and let them stay. I put two butterfly bushes in between the crepe myrtle and the hollies and decided a new garden had been started.
Since then I have added quite a few plants including lambs ears, tall phlox, several varieties of peonies, forget-me-nots, russian sage, echinacea, roses, saliva, yarrow, lavender, maiden grass, hibiscus and more..
Right now things are starting to happen and by the end of the summer this garden will be crazy. I love this time of year, it's great to go out each day and see what new developments have taken place.
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