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    Home » Gardening & Outdoors » Fall

    Joanne's Beautiful Garden

    Published: Aug 11, 2014 · Modified: May 12, 2020 by Susan Moncrieff · This post may contain affiliate links · 5 Comments

    This beautiful garden has caught my attention for the last couple of years.   I vividly remember stopping to look at it last summer.   This summer, I have regular stopped to enjoy the beautiful flower gardens.   It's such a beautiful yard, with so many flowers.  My garden is so sadly lacking in comparison.

    beautiful garden full of back eyed Susans, cone flowers, daisies and sedum.

    Roughly a year ago, I decided to give blogging a serious shot.  I'd been posting random posts randomly.  Come early fall last year, I decided to post more regularly and to narrow my topics.  Gardening was a definite topic!  I can't say I'm super good at gardening, however, I have a HUGE appreciation for the work that goes into a beautiful garden.

    beautiful garden with cone flowers, daisies, and zinnias

    What I didn't anticipate, on my blogging journey, was how nice people would be to me.  When I reached out to someone on Facebook, who I didn't know, and asked them how they did something, they called me and spent an hour walking me through each step.  Wow.  Someone who I didn't know!  More than once, a fellow blogger has willingly given time and shared their knowledge with me, totally without any expectations.

    beautiful garden

    Fast forward to a couple of days ago.  This beautiful garden backs onto a golf course that I play at.  I figured out where the house was, drove there, with my camera, to ask if I could take pictures.  No one answered the door when I rang the doorbell.  I realized the gardener was most probably deadheading or doing some other garden chore.  So I peaked around the back.  And yes, there was the woman who I would learn was called Joanne.  Who has the greenest thumb!  Who was so generous, and gave me permission to take pictures that day, and any other day I wanted.

    close up of black eyed Susan's

    Love these black eyed Susans!!

    As I looked closer, I could see the labor of love this garden is.  I asked how many hours a week she spent and she chuckled when I suggested a part-time  job.  Yes, Joanne has no time for golf because she spends more time tending to her plants than many people spend working each week.  It took four years to get the flower gardens to look like this.  About 300 plants from the original owner and then another 300 that Joanne added.   And the beds were changed and moved around.  A FOUR YEAR project!!

    Cone flowers and black eyed Susans!

    Cone flowers and black eyed Susans!

    I couldn't help but notice the stone-lined beds.  That was a summer project last year.  Can you imagine how long that would take!

    beautiful garden

    Love how all the beds are outlined with stones.

    Not only are there a ton of flowers in sunny areas, but there are also shade gardens.  All perfectly outlined by stones.

    Pretty hosta garden in a shady area

     

    Beautiful hosta garden between two trees

    Pretty coleus.  Beautiful shade plants with bright colored leaves.

    Now, this garden also has a little whimsy in it.  Love the cute statues strategically placed!

    a planter with colorful plants
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    statue in a garden bed

    bunny statue with background of black eyed Susan's and cone flowers

    I love this bunny!!

    cement statue ins shade garden

    {SIGH}  I have the hugest case of garden envy right now!

    beautiful garden

    I recognize this flower!

    As I was wandering through this garden, I spotted these pretty purple flowers.  I recognized them.  Not the name of this plant.  But the adventure one had at my house.

    my cat eating a flower

    That would be my Raji kitty.  The reason I don't keep a vase of flowers on my counters anymore.  Please ignore the mess in the background of the picture.  {SIGH}  It's summer and hard to keep everything picked up.

    beautiful garden

    Thank you Joanne for the beautiful gardens you have created.  Know that they are appreciated by many.  Just not many people are weird enough to knock on your door asking to take pictures!   Hope you don't mind, but I will take you up on your offer to drop in and take more pictures. You will probably see me super early, at about 7:20am.  If I can get the first tee-time that is.  I'd be quick though, 'cause I certainly can't get behind on my game!

     

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    1. Pat

      September 28, 2014 at 10:06 am

      What can I say. She is my sister and very talented in art and decorating too. She truly has a gift for beauty, as do our other two sisters. Our mother was the same way. Joanne loves what she does and shares with everyone.

      Pat in Miami, Fl

      https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=338370186322804&id=100004494763147&set=a.106449319514893.14735.100004494763147

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    2. Anonymous

      September 27, 2014 at 9:09 pm

      Happy to see my good friend Joanne's garden getting the recognition it deserves

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      • momcrieff

        September 28, 2014 at 7:39 am

        It is beautiful and I think many golfers pause to appreciate the beauty! Just not many knock on on the door asking to take pictures : ).

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    3. Patti

      August 11, 2014 at 7:52 am

      Great garden! Thanks for sharing. I love to see what others are doing.

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      • momcrieff

        August 11, 2014 at 11:03 am

        Thanks for the nice comments! I think you need to be a gardener to appreciate the work that can go into a beautiful garden.

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