Hallson Gardens

working on a new bed that measures approximately 10 feet wide by 120 feet long ............

It actually worked great in Steve's garden - he has one of those long narrow city lots. In our case - it just looks kind of neat!

I still plan on framing it properly and installing fake muntin bars on it - should discourage them but then I have birds flying into regular windows ....

Hey Chris - tell Brian to get his decorating hat out and use it outdoors - you guys could have a riot with mirrors! I Know I'm not done yet!!

Got this idea from a friend's garden while we were on a tour in June.

Had this garden bed that was being seriously under-utilized. And after finishing the pool deck, I had all these paving stones not being used. And after some of the garden mapping has been done, we've found some seriously under-performing hostas. And we have a bunch of new hostas needing a home .... ...

I'm blaming the squirrels on my lost tags!

Nice little bench you have there ... have you ever noticed how they are never quite big enough?

Aug. 4th weekend works really well for us this year!!

Depending on the height, that first picture you have up there actually looks a bit like Adiantum Aleuticum "Subpumilum" but the other two certainly also have that look. Imbricatum supposedly grows from 6 - 12 inches in height while the Subpumilum is in the 3 - 6 inch range. According to my book, the...

Just finished checking out our beds - everything is asleep for the winter except for a very confused viburnum and a very tough anemone!

I have a confused Viburnum - never seen one flowering this late (or maybe it thinks that it's early)

I'll dig out our Fern book and see what I can do to help you Chris

wandering about in the garden on December 22 and what do I see?
a rather rugged but still blooming anemone!!

I have been semi-busy cleaning up the beds for winter and here I find 1 plant still flowering merrily away. NOW - being that it is the 24th of November (happy Turkey day to all of our American friends) and it being CANADA - this has to be the toughest anemone I have seen yet. The question I have is ...

It's mid to late October here at Shades of Green and I found this still flowering strongly in our gardens.
And NO (to those certain smart-alecks that we know and "love") - there is no snow here in Canada (yet)!!

We completed the final phase of the bog pond (took the level down to 16 inches) While we were at it - I redid the garden to the right (Lynn came home with a bunch of new hostas from the OHS auction on Sunday) Also slowly redoing the bed to the left of the bog pond - now we need plants for the bog it...

I continued on with the dry stream bed project - now we are putting in a small bog pond ( I think that I need to dig it down a few more inches)
Tomorrow - felt padding, liner, ground cover on the edges and ROCK!!

next batch

Ok - this is a project that we started on 2 years ago and are finally getting around to working on some more. It's a dry streambed that does catch the rainflow off of our driveway during monsoon season and directs the water down to what will be a small bogpond (in progress as we chat) and then into ...

Welcome ... go see Chris and Brian - they will take VERY good care of you!!!