Progress in the Knot Garden

My daughter stepping up our newly cemented steps at Havenwood.

Greetings garden lovers! We are certainly not done with the gardens yet this year, but I thought you might like a look at where we are right now with things.


The ground work has pretty much been finished in the Knot Garden, though I am still thinking about adding a few more wheel barrow loads of dirt to the far left side to make sure it does not settle too much this winter. My husband is halfway done with the steps, as we would like to add a layer of capping stone on to the above structure.  But they are useable now (!), which is worth celebrating in itself.

A newly planted hedge of blueberry bushes on the left will balance the fruit tunnel that will hopefully go in this rectangular area by next year.

I am definitely looking forward to having a few more birch trees in the Birch Walk just passed the Knot Garden, which will help to obscure the blue house and power lines across the street. It is tough to take photos of this garden at present because that house seems to be sitting right on it! We have one birch planted already, which you can just see behind the left set of trellises in the above photo. (See my Final Plan of the garden to link these garden areas in your mind's eye.)

I have a red theme going in to this side of the garden for summer time so far. Red coreopsis and red hibiscus, along with the red tinted ornamental grass... proper names coming, but all of my plant tags are stuffed into various plastic bags at the moment! It is garden madness around here, I tell you.

View back to the back of the yard. I am hoping to start planting up the knot in the center this year, but not sure that I am going to be able to get to it.

One pretty flower re-blooming on the trellis at the moment: Clematis 'William Kennett', of WMG header fame.

I hope you are able to be out enjoying some beautiful late summer weather in your garden!
~Julie

Linked to Brooke at Creative County Mom's Tuesday Garden Party!