A Garden Rebirth in Missouri

by Kim Charles

Cheryl and Jim Moon from southwesterly Missouri have successfully rebuilt their home plate and gardens after an unfortunate fervency .

I am finally taking the plunge to submit some photos of our garden here in southwest Missouri . We have lived here for 26 old age , but in October of2014 , our dream retirement household burned to the terra firma . We had to have the website excavated to remove all the dust , and what horticulture stuff had survived the fire was mostly killed by the dig or by the subsequent rebuilding .

I ’ve put in some small gardens over the years on the half - acre , or so that is airless enough to the planetary house for the hose to touch . The first crack shows what had been the principal garden , to the right of the sidewalk , before any renewal efforts . I was able-bodied to move the genus Panicum to a new location in a breed armoured combat vehicle on the northward side of the house where it block out a chamber window . This characterization was taken latterly in the summer of 2016 .

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Abelia’Rose Creek' (foreground),Dahlia’Gallery Leonardo' (midground), andOxalis triangularis(right background).

This picture shows what had been the main garden, to the right of the sidewalk, before any renewal efforts. I was able to move the panicum to a new location in a stock tank on the north side of the house where it screens a bed.

Here is the rock wall garden, which was to the left in the first picture, showing plants that survived the fire and construction: Boxwood ‘North Star’, and unknown hellebores (I’ve had them so long they’ve been hybridizing freely in this bed).

Later in spring, some of the bulbs in the main bed are starting to bloom.

I call this our “kitchen window garden” because our kitchen is halfway below grade, and we look out at this rocky hillside when we are standing at our kitchen counter. Here there isHeuchera‘Sweet Tea’,Dryopteris erythrosora‘Brilliance’, someAjuga reptans‘Mahogany’, and an epimedium, but it’s not very big yet. Sorry about the weeds—we were very busy this year.

Here is a before picture of my upcoming rock garden. This is actually on bedrock, and we would never have been able to put in a garden except that they raised our sidewalk, giving us room to put pockets of soil between the rocks. The root ball is a gift from the creek we live on, now quite dried and nice.