A gutter box planting

I walked down Haywood Street in West Asheville a couple of times today and yesterday, while getting my car window shield replaced (a chip morphed into a long crack on either side).A high point were these "gutter" plantings, in ordinary galvanized gutters, filled with attractive sedums.In the front,...

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Sedums at Toronto Botanical Garden

These were delightful mixes of sedums and their friends in carefully planted boxes along the path.They're largely the sort that need to be brought in over winter;  glorious, never the le...

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Sedums and sedum mats

I've so enjoyed our sedum bed in the mountains as it's provided all-season interest for almost 4 years. And it continues to do so.But the combination of a cool, and very wet summer, with an extremely cold winter left me with some gaps to fill.  A non-sedum, Irish moss (Sagina subulata), was the...

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Garden vignettes

At this time of the year, I'm concentrating on harvesting (and preserving) vegetables, sowing seeds for fall veggies, worrying about getting the rest of the garden in shape (yikes! it's a lot of work!) and enjoying the unexpected pleasures of the garden.Here are a few images that I enjoyed this morning...

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