Blue Planet Garden Blog

Before and After - Starring Purple, Orange and Black

Remember back in April when I bravely shared photos of some of the, ahem, less attractive areas in my garden?  If admitting you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery, than this month I completed my journey. Here are the results of my garden renovation.

Before: I salvaged an old fountain and painted it blue to create a focal point at the end of my shady side garden. A nice idea, but the area was perpetually overgrown and weedy.

After:

After removing virtually all the plants plus two birch trees (thanks for the design advice InterLeafer!) Nick built this wall for me and attached it to the existing fence. A dry-laid mini-patio of Golden Splendor flagstone with Salmon Bay pebbles in the joints createsa floor for a new container garden.

If it walks like a weed and it talks like a weed

It's still not necessarily a weed.

Been doing a lot of planting the past month as my garden renovation winds down.  And even though this:

will ultimately look like this:

Today it looks remarkably like this:

What makes me think it's easily confused with a weed?  Because I pulled it up once already by mistake, and so has my contractor.  All we need is Nick to take a whack at it, and it'll be a perfect hat trick. 

Next week, before and after photos of my garden transformation.  And yes, I used plenty of purple paint, as promised (or threatened, depending on your point of view) in this post.

Campanula 'Canterbury Bells' photo courtesy of Annie's Annuals