Gardening Goddess

I have a backyard garden in the small Northern Wisconsin town of Ladysmith and a large woodland garden in the country near Imalone. I love gardening. Every spring I plant a few new annuals, but the backbone of my gardens are perennials.

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Rose bush is on the far right.  Has not bloomed yet.  

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The end of my garden is in full sun.  I add plants every year, either by division of older plants or purchasing a few.

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Mullein.  When we still lived out at our cabin, I went to a local now defunct nursery and bought a mullein plant.  It died after an early May frost.  I lost a lot of my annuals and was taught a hard lesson not to plant too early and to not NOT cover vulnerable newly planted specimens.  So I spied a mullein growing alongside the road.  The roadside ditches are mowed a couple times a year, so it would eventually be cut down.  I dug it out and put it in my garden.  From that plant, all my mullein have derived.  Love this plant.  Leaves are a rare grey and a little fuzzy.  Mullein is a biennial.  Very reliable.

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Stopped in at a local nursery and everything was so expensive.  But I did get this one little cute clover.  It was $5.  It is a ground cover, so hope it fills in over the years.  

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Hosta heaven!

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So pretty!

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Bleeding Heart is almost done blooming.

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Coral bells.  The deer did not find them yet!

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Shade garden is really filling out nicely.

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Made in the shade!

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Using the compost from the bottom of my pile.

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Shade garden.

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