Garden Link Up

This Garden Link up is so up my Alley . Stop over & visit Cari and the Clan, for more gardens.

I definitely think you'll be inspired. By all the gardens at Cari's. 

This is my cherry tree & hostas underneath. I plant some blue lobelia for contrasting color. ( backyard) 

  

Dwarf lilac in my front yard garden. 

Here was is my veggie garden, before planting. 

My back woodline.  The stuff growing ( invasive) is called Japanese knotweed is a member of the buckwheat family but its cane-like stems -- which can grow taller than 10 feet -- make it look and feel like bamboo, so it's often called that.

It used to overtake about 30' of our backyard, we spent 2 summers cutting back, but it just grows back, we rototilled & pulled root systems out. It still acts as a hedge, we try to keep it very contained. it's about 10 feet out of the comfort zone that I like it to be in, but I'm limited to what I can do, so a little at a time, & then I dry it & burn it in our fire pit. It sounds like firecrackers when it burns, because it is hollow. Without the leaves, it looks like bamboo.

Veggie garden planted, tomatoes , basil, cilantro, red pepper, and marigolds. 

My front garden, burning bushes, upright Japanese maple, a couple of hostas, Stella d'oro day lilies that got huge. There are pink moss roses in the corner for some annual color. 

Another from garden,  dwarf lilacs, boxwoods, and a dwarf Japanese maple.

Side of my house. Various day lilies. This gets full sun. 

These were all saved from a church that was slated for demo.

North side of my house. Full shade. All hostas. These were saved from my neighbor, when she built a new deck & the hostas were all going to be torn out.

Planter on my front porch. ( from the moss rose family)

My herb garden. Chives, thyme, mint, there are a couple of peonies ( that never bloom) mixed in there. 

Another view of the herb jungle.  ( I cut back the mint every year, but it just gets bigger & bigger )