This garden in the front of our house was full of crazy overgrown plants… even a few volunteer pine trees. Awesome. Oak chopped those suckers down and we started over, for the most part. The garden is mostly furnished with plants we got on our trip to Angier. The big tree in the center is a crape myrtle. For those of you from the great North, I call the crape myrtle the “Southern Lilac.” It’s a bushy tree that flowers for several months during the summer. I think this one is supposed to have purple flowers, and we planted another one that is going to be pink.
It’s surrounded by day lilies, 2 hydrangea bushes, and a few asian lilies. There are some puple phlox in the front as well — I’m not too sure if these survive the summer here because they look pretty tender. If they die out, we’ll probably put in some lantanas to fill in that area. We also got some purple corn flower, which are supposed to be super drought tolerant (not to mention – hiz-ot!). There’s also a lone gangly lookin’ rosebush and some iris that somehow survived the previous owners abuse, so we’re leaving them in their spots to see if they do anything.
I’ll probably take another picture when the tree flowers and some of the other flowers start to bloom. Exciting!
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