I am so proud of our retaining wall garden because I planted everything in here myself (with Mike's help with the daffodils) after our retaining wall was rebuilt.
When we bought the house, there was a falling down, rotted retaining wall with old and straggly spirea plants planted in it.
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2016 - soon after moving in
It is hard to see how falling down this wall was from this picture, but it was built with railroad ties which had rotted and the upper portion was starting to fall.
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2017
Looking out at the garden from the edge of the retaining wall. |
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2017
Some room for improvement ;) |
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| 2/19/2017 |
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2/19/17
The falling down retaining wall with those old spirea bushes and landscape fabric showing though. |
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And then, we had the retaining wall rebuilt in 2017!
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7/19/17
The wood wall has been taken down |
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| 7/19/17 |
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7/25/17
Many many stone blocks! |
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8/4/17
The beautiful newly rebuilt wall. This wall is solid and not going anywhere! |
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Once the wall was done, I had the fun of planting things. My favorite is the small cherry tree I planted on the edge closest to the road. Then I planted shrubs, mostly spirea, but two weigela and one summersweet shrubs down the wall. In retrospect, I think I planted them too close together as they have grown and done very well in the past two years.
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9/7/17
The tart cherry tree I planted |
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9/7/17
A summersweet bush closest to us, then a spirea, then a weigela |
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9/7/17
A hardy hibiscus |
And the retaining wall garden today!
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5/8/19
We planted daffodils and hyacinths the previous year, and the flowers were some of the earliest flowers we had blooming this spring.
The cherry tree has been protected from deer in its cylinder. |
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5/25/19
The cherry tree has leafed out and is so much bigger than above in 2017! |
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6/7/19
Mom is here!! And the irises I planted last year (2018) are in full bloom. |
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7/18/19
The retaining wall garden is now full of plants that have really done very well here.
Up front is a weigela, then it is a row of spirea, with these irises along the back wall.
I also planted creeping phlox in between, to hopefully spread and provide a nice groundcover so I won't need mulch forever. This bloomed in May and was beautiful but I think I forgot to take pictures of this. |
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7/18/19
Summersweet bush |
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7/18/19
One stray wild orange daylily somehow made its way in here! I need to dig that out. |
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6/30/19
One more view of the cherry tree and the view looking down the retaining wall. |
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