The Shelter Garden

[Catherine]

The shelter garden has been growing like crazy and now blooming like crazy.

I love the marigolds with the black eyed Susans

The rocks just appeared in a pile so I have been arranging them to look interesting

The purple pansies are still blooming from the spring

The tall bush is a rugosa rose. The plants to the right of it are milkweed. We are providing for a whole lot of monarch butterflies

It is a bit wild looking, but the birds like to hide in the shade so it works.

Cone flowers and bergamot for some different colour

The white flowers are yarrow.

There are little clumps  of flowers all over the garden. These are cone flowers and they will come back next year...I hope.





It has taken years to get things established, but now it is a real garden. I still need to add a few things and keep it weeded, but this year it really looks like a garden.