The hostas in the backyard are now out in full force. Every year we plant more hostas in the burm back there and its really starting to fill out nicely. We typically get free hostas and a few other types of perennials from various family members and split them in their gardens and bring them home to plant in the fall. We often buy a few each year as well.
There is quite the variety of hosta back there now, with probably at least 10 or more different versions of them. They are all different sizes and colors, but there's not a lot of rhyme or reason to the way that we planted them. Now that its filling up back there I think we need more variety of plants and some more colorful flowers to make it more interesting to look at.
There are a few other plants other than hostas but not many.
We have one pink bleeding heart that was planted by the previous owners.
I like it when its in bloom but the flowers don't last very long. Maybe a week or two if we are lucky.
Similarly we have a hot pink peony shrub that was also planted by the previous owner.
Our back yard is almost full shade with all of the trees blocking the sun and peonies like full sun, so it doesn't do well back there at all.
It literally flowers for 3 days and then dies. I don't think that it gets enough sun to sustain it really.
My wife bought a new white peony year year and planted it in a spot that gets a lot more sun. I'm curious if it will do better there.
My wife loves allium and we have a few of those that she bought from the Netherlands, along with some tulips a while back. They bloomed for a while also but are done now.
We have a few other perennial plants that spread back there, like Solomons Seal but they don't stand out enough to take a good photo of them.
As for our front deck we have our geraniums that we try an propagate each year. We always lose a few over the winter, but a lot of them survived this year. They aren't very full so we will see how they do over the summer. To be honest I don't know if saving them is actually worth it.
I think that we only do it because the previous owner was good at it and had some of these plants for like 10 years or more. Its hard to just let them die after he kept them alove for so long. They have been getting more and more scraggley for us each year though so it does seem that we are slowly killing them off. I guess we will keep the tradition alive until they are all gone?
We also buy ferns each year from a family member who knows a place that sells these massive suckers for super cheap. They are probably 2-3x larger then most that we see around. They provide a good amount of privacy for us from our neighbors. "Good ferns make for good neighbors." Thats a saying, right?
