Tag: willow

Misc. 2009

Red Maple and Sumac

Fall color on the south berm.

Tulips under the catalpa. I hung colored eggs, with blessings in them, on the catalpa tree to welcome in the spring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My good friend Panayoti Kelaidis gifted me 3 of these beautiful African Sages 20 years ago, for my Aurora Colorado garden.  I divided them and took them with me to our new home in Brighton.  They are growing well, even in this crappy soil.

North patio African sage garden
Natural, un-irrigated grass over the leach field.

We amended the soil and added drought resistant, natural prairie grasses over the leach field.  This area gets no extra water other than what leaches out into the field.

 

 

Willow tree

I

LOVE

this

big

Willow.  I have always wanted a willow tree, they are so romantic.  There are only a couple varieties that grow well in Colorado in not planted b a body of water.   I bought this one from Home Depot.  The tag said that it would do well in drought conditions so I thought I would give it a try.   So far, soo lovely!

The herb garden

There’s still color and lots of green growth in the wild flower garden (top left), the green in the leach field is grass (center), all the rest of it is mowed weeds!  We’ve got a long way to go.

The beauty of winter

Three massive cottonwood trees. These trees are growing at the far west end of the subdivision, just to the south of the reservoir pond (where I imagine they’re pulling their water from). They are glorious covered in snow!
North Blue Spruce
Purple ash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grass in a pot
Willow Garden, birds love the feeders

 

 

 

 

 

weeping willow, soo magical, I LOVE this tree