BEFORE:  The front and side yards
From left:  Rhododendron, Andromeda, Dirt patch, and evergreen shrub

(from left:  "Shrub, Shrub, Dirt, Shrub")

 BEFORE

AFTER  (August 08)

Plants from left back:  Heather, Hosta, Unknown towering yellow flowers, Lychnis Coronaria, Liatris (Gayfeather), Hosta with palms behind, Rudbeckia, pink flowers at far right are unknown hanging basket plant (which has died)
Middle Row: Heather, upright unkown annual, Dogwood tree with both yellow and red blood Sedum below it and dwarf rose, "Purple Gem", annual New Ginea Impatients, Gaura
Front row:  Annual New Ginea Impatients, Crocosmia, Coral Bells, 2nd Rudbeckia, Perennial Saliva (purple), Campanula (can't see), "Purple Gem," impatients, unknown early summer flowering plant, Campanula (can't see), more impatients, 2nd perennial Saliva (mixed 2 shades purple, "Roxanne" Geranium (really spread out!)
Very front (and outside of photo): annual Petunias (purple and pink) and spiky palm in space where huge Yew bush was taken.  Next year a shrubby ornamental tree of some kind will go there.

                    Perennial Salvia (2 tone)                                                                               Crocosmia (Montbretia)

                                             Lychnis Coronaria                                                                 Gaura Lindheimeri

                         Mystery flower that towers behind Dogwood Tree                                  Up-close of mystery plant

                                                               
May 08 -- everything that bloomed was PURPLE -- oops!

Left Front Garden

BEFORE

AFTER

         From left:  Privet hedge (needing trim), lilac bush surrounded by a sea of Rozanne Geranium (longest flowering perennial... the vivid purple flowers don't show well in this photo), front row along walk is smaller geranium in white (but it hardly bloomed this year).  On right side to replace the Yew bush:  2 zebra grasses (still quite small), some annual impatients for color amongst the purple flowers and one spiky annual.  Around the lilac there are 4 18" Pardon Me red Daylilies and to the right a taller, also red, daylily (which isn't really visible). 
(Not a great photo - none of the daylilies are noticeable...)

THE SIDE YARD
from front

    The messy side yard is invisible from front (blocked from view by shrubs).  This is where I have the dining room in-window bird feeder (see upper left - the window to the left of the air conditioner)... and the bird bath (foreground)... and the veg and herb "garden" in grow pots.  The left one is tomato plants, and the right one has cucumbers, parsley, basil, caraway (greens for salads), and carrots (I'll believe them when I see them!)   Click here to view the birds in the feeder!

THE BACK YARD
from bottom of Driveway

BEFORE:

AFTER:

We added 10 larger red-twig dogwoods to the left, so that is big and bushy and covers the rusted fence and stump.

Adirondack chairs. Notice new garden of Vinca Minor (aka Periwinkle aka Myrtle) by back fence.

Thank you for taking the Garden Tour!  I hope you enjoyed it. 

Corrections or suggestions are always welcome!!

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