An Introduction...

To me and my garden. I garden in zone 5 Michigan. That means winters dipping down to -10 below, complicated by having no lasting snow cover, and summers where the temperature and the humidity are often the same reading - somewhere in the 80's. What does that mean? It means lots and lots of stuff does well here.

I grow mostly perennials, with a few annuals and bi-annuals finding footholds as the years pass. I've been gardening since I was five, around 35 years, but I still feel that I am new at this. Always more to learn.

I don't mollycoddle my garden. I do take note of what plants seem unhappy and try to move them around to better suit their needs. And as my garden gets larger, I am letting in plants that are going to need some extra attention come winter (last winter did not make my deutsia bushes happy - I will give them a crude burlap wrap this next season. But no styrofoam hats. They go to that great garden in the sky before I stoop to the styrofoam.)

Hogglebog, as the name implies, tends to hold a bit of water. We are low-lying land that probably was once marsh lands, drained and claimed as farmland and later platted for housing. I have a variety of conditions on my sizeable lot. Sandy on the far side of the driveway, wet to the west of the house, and just a bit squishy elsewhere. We've had a wet spring (sing praises, all) and the yard probably won't dry out until the end of this month. If then.

Here you see me in the corner near where the niobe picture was taken. There is a glimpse of the pergola on the left, and the side of my double wide on the right. Judicious photo cropping will ensure that you suffer through the least amount of house views as possible. (Rejoice, gentle reader.)

I've set this mostly quiet and cool corner up with a place to pull out the camp chairs and watch the hummers visit the feeder. So far when I am here the birds are elsewhere but. Such is life. I've propped an old and broken dresser mirror up against the house, and reflected in this you see some of the plants that are in holding patterns, waiting to go in the ground.

I'm not sure what the hosta is on the left. I've a bit of a jones for hostas and I've lost track of most of their names. Very likely it's Hosta marginata. In the middle are a pair of japanese painted ferns (Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' ), and on the far right is dwarf korean goatsbeard (Aruncus aethusifolius.)

Comments

[bill]

nice photos. looking forward to seeing more.

[jenn]

Thanks.
More will be forthcoming...