Carol & Bill’s FOR SALE garden in Georgia

Today ’s picture are from Carol & Bill Walton in Georgia . They sent them in a couple of month ago , so thing may have change , but back then they said,“We’ve only been in our Canton , Georgia , home for three short years .

“ Not a individual plant other than weed and briars and the grass existed in the back yard . My husband Bill start the gardens I cogitate before we were even unpacked . Structure was first on the agenda : fencing for the detent , stairs down from the deck , and a patio beneath the deck . Some large boulders formed a hold rampart and my married man cadge vacant lots for more to extend it and build the rock-and-roll steps . Some of our favourite iris and daylily came with us and were among the first planting , along with some potted ‘ Endless Summer ’ hydrangea and Japanese maple that also made the trip from our previous dwelling house .

“ Climbing roses and hydrangeas make their manner along the mandrel and railing . Hydrangeas are a predominate planting in the garden with oakleaf , ‘ Penny Mack ’ , ‘ flush Bride ’ , ‘ Endless Summer ’ , ‘ calcium light ’ , and our young favorite , ‘ Vanilla Strawberry ’ . Dried transcription carry their smasher through the wintertime days . Pink and red ‘ ravisher ’ rose provide colour all summer after the irises and daylilies are spent . A big chaste tree diagram and fig share space with several paper bush Tree . legion perennials fill around the large planting and provide pops of color .

“ big genus Funka ‘ Sum and Substance ’ and ‘ Blue Angel ’ fill the shady spots along with variegated Solomon seal , wood poppy , astillbes , hellebore , and ferns . One of our dearie is the daphne , which is under the stairs and supply gorgeous flowers and scent in late winter .

“ Being the low house on the street , water overspill can be real and a dry brook bed does duplicate duty when rains are laborious . Bill decided to break up the large area of garden by integrate a brick and crushed rock path . It created new beds and more plant buying opportunity . It terminates with a pedestal and oral sex against the background of a prominent camellia . A expectant gemstone bench provides a resting smear and is a preferred speckle for our Orange River queen .

“ Our above land pool and fountain are the focal point of the lawn area . One big koi and several goldfish keep us entertain as they swim their elbow room through the urine lilies , lotus , pickerel and ever abundant water hyacinth .

“ lamentably our menage is on the securities industry as we ’re relocating to be unaired to household . But we always look onward to novel garden opportunities . We just leave lovely gardens in our wake . ”

Whoever buy your house will be SO LUCKY , Carol & Bill ! It ’s such a peaceful , beautiful garden . Some garden buff will snap it up , if they have n’t already .

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