Today ’s picture are from Patty Clark out in Washington . She says,“My hubby and I purchased two hillside Akko for their southern exposure and beautiful rural and plenty view . We wanted to create a relaxed and casual garden that would run with the surrounding orchard apple tree trees . Way before the internet I would learn garden design by bringing home stacks and stacks of books from the library . When plan my garden I had specific goal and guiding principal . My new dwelling house and garden had to tally into our hillside landscape ; meaning we would not bulldoze everything into a flat infinite . We carve out large level from the gradient and created three multilevel garden space . I had to be patient … .. we developed one level at a time over over the last twenty days . “Beautiful , Patty ! * * * More photo from Patty ’s garden tomorrow….stay tuned !
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My husband and I built our home in a hillside apple orchard. We incorporated apple trees into our garden. This is a perfect spot to drink our morning coffee!
Again we incorporated the 60 year old apple trees into our garden plan. This is our perfect spot for bird watching!
I encourage all gardens to become a Certified Wildlife Habitat. It’s an easy online process and even a gardener living in an apartment with a deck can be certified!
This pic shows my main level garden room with the sidewalk to our front door.
My main level shade garden is full of hostas and conifers.
This pic shows ‘Invincible’ and ‘Francee’ hostas, and Alchemilla with a spruce standard.
I designed this Moon Gate Arbor to connect my north and south facing garden rooms. It is smothered with ‘Russell’s Cottage’ (a pre-1826 rambler) and ‘Francis Lester’ (introduced 1946) roses.
My garden room is pretty much lime, purple, and pink. This pic shows ‘Royal Pink’ cotinus, ‘Limemound’ spirea, and ‘John Cabot’ rose.
AFTER: My upper level lawn features dry stone stacked walls. We planted Norway spruce and ‘Sunburst’ locust 20 years ago.
BEFORE pic of our upper level area.
Here is a pic of our new fire pit we put in last summer.
We named our garden Clark Park! ‘Karl Foerster’ grasses are planted in front of our rail fence.
I spruced up a bare unattractive wall with a pot garden! I winter over all the pots in my garage.
This is my lower-level garden room.
