a garden comparison

[mmegaera]

newwaytowrite mentioned that she's been enjoying the progression of my garden in the pictures I've been posting every month. Since I've been doing this for three years (taking pictures of my garden at least once a month during the growing season, not posting them on LJ), I was inspired to go back and look at the pictures from this time in 2007 and 2008. Anyway, I thought I would post the same view from all three years. Behind the cut, because the pictures are huge.


2007. That was the year of the Giant Mutant Snapdragons that topped the six-foot fence [g]. I'd forgotten all about that. It was also the year that the sweet, innocent-looking 4" pot Shasta daisy decided to completely take over the center of the garden, utterly hiding the phlox behind it. The hardy geranium dead center is now out front, and the lavender looked like crap.


2008. The Shasta daisy was divided (a second chunk is now out front, and I gave a couple of chunks away) and moved over to the right, so that the phlox behind it is now visible in all its glory. The first year for the Very Happy Lily to the left. Also the first year I grew rudbeckia. And why didn't I plant sunflowers this year? Must rectify that next year. Blue bachelor's buttons (which I also managed not to plant this year until I sowed some for fall bloom that I just set out). The Silver Mound did much better last year than this because I planted the linaria too close to it this year. And that big green mound to the left is gone now -- it was a Japanese anemone that tried to take over the world. I'm still dealing with shoots, but I'm gradually winning that war.


And this year. The only comment I'm going to make about it, since I discussed it in my last garden picspam post, is that there's something wrong with the condo sprinkler system, and my grass has gone dormant due to that and the fact that we've only had a quarter of an inch of rain since June first [sigh]. I have soaker hoses in the garden that I run for two hours twice a week, which is the only reason my garden is green and flowering.

Anyway, that's my back garden during the middle of August over the last three years. Thanks for making me think to do this, newwaytowrite!