My title is Heather, and my husband and I backyard in Macon, Georgia. We moved into our historic house 13 years in the past, and we set to work making a cottage-style panorama that may enable us to develop greens, take pleasure in minimize flowers, and nonetheless present loads of area for our younger youngsters. About 5 years in the past, we bought the empty gravel parking zone subsequent door to us. At this level, we created a potager-style vegetable backyard with boxwood border, put in a rock path, and added many perennials. In our zone, this can be very sizzling and humid, and we’ve discovered that coneflower (Echinacea), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), Salvia, daylilies (Hemerocallis), and native mountain mint (Pycnanthemum) carry out properly for us. I all the time plant zinnias and sunflowers in honor of my late grandfather, who all the time grew them. We even have a wide range of hydrangeas and David Austin roses scattered all through. Our lot is a few half acre and consists of an out of doors dwelling area as properly, however I’ve simply included pictures of our favourite backyard areas (in addition to a few “earlier than” pictures). It’s been a DIY labor of affection.
Earlier than—there was actually nothing right here.
Beginning the method of remodeling the area right into a backyard
And after—what a change!
Roses had been educated to develop up this put up.
Trying throughout the backyard, the shiny foliage of a southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora, Zones 7–10) frames the view to at least one facet.
Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus, annual) bloom by the nook of the home in honor of Heather’s late grandfather.
The plush bounty of the vegetable backyard entices younger gardeners to take pleasure in.
A fist-full of homegrown floral magnificence
Contemporary diet from the backyard
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