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Grassless side yard

C. L. Sleger
vor 8 Jahren

When I bought the house in 2003 the west side yard was a dry weedy strip with hard clay soil. The old path of limestone slabs provided the inspiration for a grassless side yard.

I dug everything up, amended the soil, and put in thyme, lavender, dianthus, creeping phlox and sedums. At first they looked like hair plugs:

Now, in late May and early June:

The garden is considerably taller in autumn. This is Zone 5 so you see lots of asters, goldenrod, grasses, and Autumn Joy sedum.

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  • ianna
    vor 8 Jahren

    pretty. I too have removed my grass and replaced it with perennials

    Kommentare (13)

    • hoverfly - London
      vor 8 Jahren

      What a wonderful little garden. It's great to see how it has filled in - very inspirational!

      C. L. Sleger hat hoverfly - London gedankt
    • lgteacher
      vor 8 Jahren

      How beautiful! Your love of plants is evident.

      C. L. Sleger hat lgteacher gedankt
    • User
      vor 8 Jahren

      Wow! To someone like me whose garden is in the "hair plug" stage (great description of the look BTW) your garden is a huge inspiration.

      C. L. Sleger hat User gedankt
    • PRO
      Linda Greenberg Landscape & Design, LLC
      vor 8 Jahren

      As a professional landscape designer, I'm constantly working with small courtyards or pathway possibilities that will eliminate or lessen the footprint of caring for turf throughout the year. Your perennial garden is beautiful when in bloom, but I would also suggest adding formed plant materials like a Dwarf Boxwood that would carry your eye throughout the pathway. The Boxwoods will anchor the various 'chaotic' perennial spaces with evergreen form.

      Linda Greenberg, Landscape Designer

      704-995-7173

      linda@lglandscapes.net

      C. L. Sleger hat Linda Greenberg Landscape & Design, LLC gedankt
    • posierosie_zone7a
      vor 8 Jahren

      So beautiful and so much variety and change throughout the seasons. Thank you for sharing.

      C. L. Sleger hat posierosie_zone7a gedankt
    • SweetMonkeyCheese Z9 Tampa
      vor 8 Jahren

      Wow!

    • rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
      vor 8 Jahren
      Zuletzt geändert: vor 8 Jahren

      C.L., how perfectly charming.

      Dwarf boxwood, Linda Greenberg? Really? Boring.

      C. L. Sleger hat rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7 gedankt
    • dg
      vor 8 Jahren

      Your floral path draws me in! Very nice :)

      C. L. Sleger hat dg gedankt
    • dirtygardener73
      vor 8 Jahren

      GORGEOUS! I had the same problem with a grassless side yard that was mostly marl soil -- impossible to dig or plant in for the most part. I started by planting a tiny red-leaf plum, then one by one, I started digging little holes and filling them with compost, planting and planting. I covered it with leaves every year and let them decompose. It took a long, long time (almost 10 years), but finally, I ended up with beautiful, black loamy soil that would grow anything and everything. I miss that house, but not the work of that big yard.

      C. L. Sleger hat dirtygardener73 gedankt
    • Kaillean (zone 8, Vancouver)
      vor 7 Jahren

      I love it! It's beautiful!

      C. L. Sleger hat Kaillean (zone 8, Vancouver) gedankt
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      Van Zelst Inc
      vor 7 Jahren

      Beautiful work. I love the variety of heights and textures. You may want to sink some of those steppers into the earth so you don't trip on them.

      C. L. Sleger hat Van Zelst Inc gedankt
    • teeka0801(7aNoVa)
      vor 7 Jahren

      what an inspiration! I love natural looking gardening...it's harder than one might think! That's why I get SO upset when I see folks chopping down the staggered, natural forests and replacing with those rows of trees...yuck...and they get paid big bucks for this??!! It looks so fake, don't they realize it?

      Sorry, got side tracked....fabulous!!

      C. L. Sleger hat teeka0801(7aNoVa) gedankt
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