Suggest to get the Stone Mason guys back next year to make a 2 layer terrace with pathway in between for the entire area. That part of the garden will become impossible to work on in years to come. Plan for your future.
Morning, Jenny. As always I find myself conversing with you as I watch. As if you can hear me! Lol. Your updated driveway garden looks terrific. Good choices on your plants. Keep on digging! 😂
Beautiful! The daffodils added just the right balance of pop for that area. I’m glad you’re focusing on the natives too. Who knew we had such a variety of options.
A Lavender could go up there in the corner! Likes dry feet and, trimming each year as Laura does, it would always look great! I started trimming new Lavenders too.😊
Hello Jenny! Instead of a bush in that corner I would plant another climbing rose like the one you already have planted. They can grow together and make a really beautiful effect on your little hillside.
Looks great Jenny! Next spring I think it will be beautiful. I would be buying early spring plants if any store around here (southwest Michigan) were selling any! There are no hellebores, pansies, phlox, the garden center portion of our big box stores - empty! It drives me nuts! Anyway, nice to see you out in your garden as always! Thank you for sharing! ♥️😊
Thank you for sharing your process. I do vote for the daffodils on the right side of the stairs so that has some continuity with the other side. Looking great! Can't wait to see the rose fill in.
Hardy geraniums are amazing in the border. So many varieties, great doers, and if you cut back after flowering they'll rebloom. Try G. Rozanne. It has an Award of Garden Merit, I've seen it at Wisley gardens in Surrey, England and it's stunning.
I ❤❤❤ my Hardy Geraniums (salmon pink). Easy to pull out, nice foliage, pretty flowers. A neighbor gave me a pot of them about 20 years ago and I've just divided over the years.
Hi Jenny! the area looks so beautiful and it will look even better when the plants fill in. For the corner a tiny wine ninebark could look beautiful. You can even do an artic fire yellow or red dogwood.
Ninebark shrubs are drought tolerant and come in many sizes (dwarf to huge) and many leaf color choices. Very cold tolerant. They get white blooms (about 1 inch wide balls) in spring. No pruning required as they have graceful arching branches that are best left alone. You might like one of those in your back corner. Evergreen Yews grow well in any light levels and grow new growth from bare branches so they won't get "bald" on the inside like other evergreens. They come in low shrub forms and dwarf to tall pyramidal forms. They are drought tolerant too. (after the first year, as with all new plantings).
Hi Jenny, a suggestion for an evergreen shrub - maybe consider juniperus virginana ‘grey owl’. Native evergreen shrub that can cope well with drought. Could be an alternative to the boxwood you mentioned.
Hi Jenny 🌺. These plants are so pretty and they are going to be amazing . You can plant in the corner star magnolia hydrangea tree , crape myrtle , lilac , camelia , Japanese maple .. Have a great day .🌺🌻🌺
A layer of mulch might help give you that finished look you are after. In my hot climate, sunshine ligustrum or loropetalum works well. Creeping juniper works well on slopes. I don't know if any of those are native to Maryland. I am zone 8a South Carolina. Love your videos!
That is going to look amazing! I doubt you'll have an issue with lack of forget me nots - those you have left will likely self-seed & you'll have a nice stand of them back in no time.
A native Azalea, not sure how large they get though. Love PW (Perfecto Mundo) new Azaleas and they are small. Very inspiring seeing you take this hillside to the next level. I love Creeping Jenny along with Chocolate /Chip Ajuga here in MS for ground cover.
It looks great, Jenny! I have a hill that I plant and it is so difficult. Each year I put more and more perennials in it but I struggle with thistle weed. Happy Spring to you!
Great job! I recently saw an interview with Sarah Raven where she talked about growing salvia plants near roses to improve the health of the roses. It seems that when it’s sunny the salvia plants release a natural fungicide. You might want to consider some salvias to add to the summer display.
Hi Jenny. Looking good! What about a lorpetalum Daruma up by the fence? Not evergreen but it would add color and interest and tie in with the rose color…
In my humble opinion you should just pick 1 ground cover , flowering or not and populate the entire area with. You seem to like to plant soooooo many different varieties in every bed you have . Less is definitely more in this situation and KISS!! that is a very difficult area to garden, and will always look messy with so many different plant species. Plant 1 variety , mulch and stay on top of the weeds while the ground over spread and fill in with time. I would plant ajuga en masse . Plant yourself a beautiful large urn seasonal arrangements at far side of stairs on driveway to greet you and guests there, play with your plant combos in the pot not the difficult hillside .
Thanks for the suggestion. Ajuga is a non-native invasive, so I'll be moving away from that. The sunlight on this bed is very different from the top to the bottom, so it's nearly impossible to find the same plants to fill the bed.
Good luck with the phlox subulata. I have loved the phlox divaricata variety Chattahoochee for 30 years, but when I planted it in one of my rock terraces here in the Pacific Northwest, in full to part sun, it didn’t make it. The sun fried it and the deer ate it. It had done beautifully for me when I lived in Texas, so pretty actually that someone stole it, so I was surprised that it didn’t handle the sun here. It is a woodland phlox, but I thought if it made it in Texas it would here for sure, but I was wrong.
Are you going to run drip lines for this bed? It's been my experience that hillside garden beds can have difficulty staying well watered! That rose for sure won't like it dry. I don't think you said if you were going to run drip or hand water? We have so much lime in our water that it clogs up the little holes in drip lines, so I'm back to watering with an old fashioned sprinkler I guess.
I’m very surprised that my candytuft is starting to bloom right now. It is on the south side of my house so maybe that’s why. I just planted it last summer so I really don’t know much about it’s blooming habits. 🪻💚🙃
I hate tradescantia because of how invasive it was for me in my north Florida garden. This is going back over 20 years, and it came with that house, so probably 30 years maybe, but it just took over and popped up in huge clumps that were so thick the lawn mower could not handle it and I couldn’t dig them out either. It’s pretty, but I will never plant it. 😀
