Lush Garden Layout Featuring Various Plants and Gardens
Explore a detailed garden layout with features such as rosemary, lavender, butterfly weed, tomato and cucumbers, pumpkins, fig tree, strawberry garden, sunflowers, rain garden, library entrance, sensory garden, and more. The design showcases a mix of herbs, vegetables, flowers, and serene spaces like the Happy Table garden with sitting rocks, and the Rain Garden designed to filter water. Each area is carefully planned to create a vibrant and inviting outdoor environment.
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LAB GARDEN LAYOUT Rosemary Butterfly Weed Lavender Garden Library Entrance Library Rain Garden Tomato and Cucumbers Kindergarten Pumpkins and veggies Fig Tree & Strawberry Happy Table Sunflowers and turnips Door Tree Cold Frame Tree Cold Frame & Nectar Garden 3 Sisters Cotton and Cabbage Patio with Concrete Benches Garden Sensory and Blueberry Raspberry Garden strawberries bed tree & Esaplier Apple Bird House 24 ft. Long Table with Benches Trellis c Tree Compost Tumblers Rain Garden & Magnolia 2nd Grade Butterfly Garden Picnic Table & Benches Salad Science Salad Science Shady Native Garden Door Shed LIBRARY Not to Scale 1
LIBRARY ENTRANCE GARDEN ROSEMARY Tuscan Blue A CULINARY HERB LAVENDER Munstead & SPRING BULBS CENTER SECTION PLANTED WITH BUTTERFLY WEED Asclepias tuberosa 3 Starry Night Roses GARDEN SIGN LIBRARY CRAPE MYRTLE Natchez LAVENDER Munstead & SPRING BULBS Bulbs are primarily hyacinths, anemones, and crocus. 2
THE LIBRARY RAIN GARDEN Clematis & Concord Grape trellis Future site Joe Pye Weed TITROMA Ophiopogon japonicas Nana, is planted around the storm drain on the outside border. The taller grass-like plants on the inside are Creeping Lily Turf, Liriope spicata. These will have spikes of blue flowers late in the summer. All of these plants will help filter water before it enters the drain. .. STORM DRAIN GARDEN SIGN Liriopi spicata CRAPE MYRTLE Natchez LIBRARY 3
HAPPY TABLE & SITTING ROCK GARDEN FIG TREE & STRAWBERRY GARDEN This small garden has a Japanese influence that comes from the use of dwarf mondo grass and four large seating stones placed around a small oval locust table. This is a contemplative garden conducive to small projects, reading, having tea, or just sitting while observing the garden. It has been placed in an area that receives a good deal of sun to warm the rocks. The table is called the "Happy Table" for the two smiley faces painted on either end of it. The dwarf mondo grass is popular in Japan. It gets no higher than it is now. It will fill in to become a thick soft mat that never needs cutting, and it will take light foot traffic once established. The post that the honey locust table top is mounted on is black locust. Both pieces are of native trees that are very rot resistant and should last many decades. The honey locust has a salmon colored tint to it, while the black locust has a light chocolate color as the wood ages. The rocks and the mondo grass with its undulating appearance make this a serene space. WATER HOSE REEL Happy Table & Sitting Rocks This small garden features a Celeste Fig tree surrounded by a few everbearing strawberries that produce fruit from spring up to frost. The strawberries are inter- planted with spring blooming wind flower bulbs, anemone Blanda. Once the anemone bulbs flower, the foliage dies back in the summer and disappears beneath the strawberry leaves, only to reappear the next spring. FIG TREE Celeste STRAWBERRIES 4
Cold Frame and Nectar/Seed Garden DOOR TO SOUTH HALLWAY A cold frame has been placed in the Southwest corner of this garden to extend our growing season of cool weather plants (lettuce, carrots, radishes, etc.) into winter. If we put a horticultural heat mat in the bottom of the cold frame, we should be able to grow plants year round. The rest of the garden is being planted with nectar and seed producing plants that will attract birds, butterflies, and other pollinators that are critical to the pollination of all our plants. Currently, there is blue columbine, Baby Love roses, Sage, Blackberry Lily along with a variety of annuals that are labeled and some that have reseeded themselves from last year. New tings are planted in this garden every year as we try new plants. Frame Cold SOUTH HALLWAY WINDOWS Cold Frame and Nectar/Seed Garden LIBRARY 5
THE MAGNOLIA RAIN GARDEN LIRIOPI SPICATA surrounds the storm drain. STORM DRAIN Around the storm drain in this garden is creeping lily turf, liriopi spicata, which will fill in to form a dense mat. Dwarf mondo grass was around the border but has mostly died out. The chartreuse Lysimachia will overgrow the drain without impeding water flow. CREEPING JENNY lismachia GARDEN SHED Compost tumblers MAGNOLIA Little Gem Compost Tumbler NANDINA Harbor Dwarf (small shrubs) 6 LIBRARY
ANNUAL TRELLIS GARDEN and AMISH BIRD HOUSE A Douglass Fir pergola with shade cloth covers the large table. Four herb planters made out of Western Red Cedar have been placed on each corner of the large paved area in the center of the garden and planted with a large variety of culinary herbs. Each plant has a label to identify it. Crape Myrtle Tuscarora The Bean Trellis is planted this year with Hyacinth Beans on each corner and Scarlet Runner Beans in between. These plants are particularly attractive to hummingbirds and other nectar feeders. They should grow 8 to 10 feet tall. The Baby Love' rose at the center will get larger as it gets older. The daffodils will soon yellow and go dormant for the summer. Already dormant are saffron crocus around the edges that will bloom this fall. The daffodil foliage must be left until it turns yellow, so the bulbs can develop for next year. Once the foliage is yellow, it can be cut back. BENCH WALL Espalier apple tree and strawberry bed 24 ft. long TABLE Bird House TRELLIS The espaliered dwarf apple tree grown flat on the trellis has 3 varieties of apples grafted to it. At the base of the apple tree, we have planted an ever bearing variety of strawberries know as Tribute . PAVER DECK The large Amish bird house has ten nesting boxes in it. It will attract small birds such as wrens, sparrows, finches and maybe chickadees. The openings are too small for larger birds like cardinals or bluejays. It is mounted on a 12 foot long western red cedar post so that it is visible from the second story of the school. It is hoped that the children will identify the birds that come to the bird house and the garden and observe their eating and nesting habits and behavior. White Dogwood Celestial 7 LIBRARY
Shady Native Garden and Berry Garden Part of the Sensory Garden at upper part of berry garden with Lamb s Ears and Bearded Iris to compliment the smells coming from the lavender. The Berry Beds have been planted in low raised gardens visible through the library Windows in one of the sunniest parts of the courtyard. 'Reka' and 'Jersey' blueberries have been planted in the beds to the left as one faces the library. These plants will grow upwards of 4 feet tall and require no staking. They will bear some fruit this year, as they are blooming now. In years to come they will bear much more heavily. If the birds discover them, we will have to be quick to get any fruit, or we well have to put nets over them. At the other end, to the right of the blueberries, are an everbearing red raspberry named 'Caroline.' When it starts to produce, it will bear fruit from early summer right up till Fall frost. A trellis will keep the raspberries under control so they do not flop all over the place. They have to be pruned every year and suckers pulled up so they do not grow out of control. The raspberry trellis is made of a very durable, light wood, Western Red Cedar, that is beautiful. The trellis posts are of black locust. The Shady Native Garden features woodland plants in a natural setting. The tree that is the centerpiece is a Sourwood, Oxydendrum arboretum, which is sometimes called a Lily-of-the-valley tree because it's blooms look much like lily-of-the-valley flowers. Its flowers produce an abundance of nectar that bees make into a delicious honey. This tree is especially attractive in the spring when it is in bloom and again in the fall when its leaves turn lovely shades of yellow and orange. It is a mid-size tree, so it will not over-grow the area in which it lives. Around the tree and throughout this little garden are planted a variety of native ferns, to include Cinnamon and Christmas ferns, Southern Shield Fern, and the small Hay Scented Fern. Coral Bell, Heuchera, have been planted toward the front that gets a bit more sun. Additionally, native columbine and liatris have been planted and labeled. Other plants can be added as they are collected. The rocks placed throughout the garden give it a natural woodland look, but more importantly they help retain moisture to limit the need to water, and they provide some protection to the plants and their roots. This garden is a work in progress. LIBRARY WINDOWS BENCH WALL Patio Sensory and Berry Garden Picnic Table Bench Shady Native Garden LIBRARY 8
