Back in 2012 my granddaughter came to visit with a present for Grandma - a tulip tree from her yard. It's the second plant from the left - can you see it?
Tulip trees are fast growers and this is what it looked like at the end of 2013.
Fast forward to spring of this year
The tulip tree is on the far left in the photo below.
In June of this year I got my first flowers. I love them.
I only had 4 blossoms this year but was so excited.
I moved the fountain from the herb garden to my "Secret Garden" to help create a Victorian Garden feel. You can see the fountain in the herb garden on the sidebar. The tulips and daffodils were new this year. I bought a bag of 50 each at Walmart on closeout last fall and plan to buy another bag of each this fall to complete the gardens.
The obelisk in the front garden has always supported cucumbers but I decided to try sunflowers in it this year - an idea from Pinterest. The arbor in the background is the entrance to the secret garden. My husband built it for me last fall.
Love the colors in this garden. The crocosmia have not budded out in the picture above but are in full bloom in the picture below. Its hard to see but the first yellow flower is finally showing on the highest sunflower.
I hope to post a picture soon with all of them in bloom. Last year I had 2 sunflowers self-seed in the secret garden. The birds would peck at them for the longest time - often fighting each other for the seeds.
The birds would then take the seeds to the arbor bench to shell the seeds. So much fun to watch the birds in the garden.
Can you see the hummingbird on the far left cross-board?
Another surprise this year - these self seeded pansies. I have never grown pansies - although I have tons of Johnny- Jump-Ups - so guess I have to thank the birds for these.
Spring flowers - roses and foxglove.
Morning Glories in bloom - Five legs of the gazebo are planted but only one has flowered at this point. A mystery to me. Since this picture was taken I've had a couple pink blooms on another leg. I planted a different morning glory on each leg and am waiting patiently for more blooms.
This arbor and the trumpet vines were new last September. So far only 1 cluster of orange flowers.
Daisies, Brown-Eyed Susans, bee balm, delphiniums and lavender surround the water barrel.
My husband added the stone path this year because I was wearing out the lawn planning and planting the morning glory garden area!
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