This is the two-acre garden of Mike and Brenda Snider in central Ohio.
As we head toward our second spring of the pandemic, we are reviewing pictures of the past year and would like to share some with other gardeners. The bone structure of the garden was planted 40 years ago; however, we have become rather intense gardeners in the past 10 years. We have pictures of new garden areas as well as established gardens.
Two spruce trees were removed, making space for new plantings. The spring of 2020 was the first year of the revised garden with tulips we purchased when touring the Keukenhof Tulip Garden in Amsterdam.
Later in the spring we have the peony (Paeonia hybrid, Zones 3–8) from a family farm and a few remaining irises along the flower bed by the yard barn.
In late June, this ‘The Grand Champion’ rose starts blooming. This plant is only one year old, and it continued to perform like this all summer.
This is the revised vegetable garden in July. Changing this from a traditional garden to raised beds was a big project at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The scarecrow was made by our two grandsons.
In August there are hibiscus (Hibiscus hybrid, Zones 5–9), magic lilies (Lycoris squamigera, Zones 5–9), and white phloxes (Phlox paniculata, Zones 4–8) with the barn, white fence, and evergreens as the backdrop.
A view of the formal patio in August.
This is a view of a border bed between our yard and the grain field. There are Autumn Joy sedum (Hylotelephium spectabile ‘Herbstfreude’, Zones 3–9) that line the front of the bed, with a surprise of magic lilies in August.
The large pedestal planter in the circle of the formal patio in late September.
We end the year with pictures of December.
More snowy winter December beauty.
Now we are busy planning our garden for our second spring of the pandemic and look forward to more rewarding enhancements in the garden.
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Comments
Beautiful! Love the boxwood garden! Great idea with the tulips & bench! Awesome scarecrow!
Love the formal garden, I have a boxwood hedge with a lilac standard in the center. Love the vegetable garden, Looks like you made good use of your time. And that Rose, Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
I looked up your rose, The Grand Champion. It's a hybrid floribunda- no wonder it got so large, so fast. It's a shrub rose. Expect it to reach 4ft x 4ft :)
Wonderful photos! Loved the bed with the Autumn Joy and grain field behind. Would have loved to see those Autumn Joy in bloom as well. And, as much as I'm over winter by now, I loved your winter shots. Thank you for taking the time to share your gardens with us all.
Beautiful Gardens! I’ll have to try the grand champion rose in my gardens.-One year old & already looks great. Thanks for sharing!
Love those Lycoris squamigera. I have tried to grow them in the deep, deep south with no luck.
Very nice garden!!!!
I love that formal circle with the shrubs, wow!
You really impressed me with that Grand Champion rose...you really must be good at rose pruning...something I've yet to learn how to do well!
Snow photos are beautiful also!
Beautiful garden throughout the year - thanks for sharing!
Hi, Mike and Brenda. There are so many things to like about your lovely garden! Two areas really drew me in - one was the tulip and the bench area. The second area I loved was the one with the Grand Champion roses. Thank you for sharing!
Brenda and Mike, I am in awe of your beautiful garden. With each photo, I was amazed and couldn't wait to see the next one. Thank you so much for sharing
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