Lebanon Garden Tour

Last weekend we went on a local garden tour in Lebanon, Ohio.  We saw some cute gardens.

But the show stopper was a farmhouse out in the country with a beautiful cottage style garden.  There are a lot of pictures but I just couldn't help myself because it is so beautiful.

This is the entrance to the vegetable garden that was divided into quadrants by the stone paths.

The outside of the vegetable garden is flanked on all sides by perennial beds.

Sundial Garden

Rose Arbor Garden

A cute little greenhouse and cold frame.

Potting Shed

Rock Wall Garden

Asparagus Bed and Peony Bed

Newport Garden Walk 2013

Going to the Newport Garden Walk has become a annual tradition for us.  This year was the fourth year I have been.  We enjoy walking around a historic part of Northern Kentucky, seeing the beautiful row homes and touring some amazing gardens to get some new ideas.  Here are some of the highlights:

I am always impressed by the creativity in container and vertical gardening these gardeners use since they have small yards due to the nature of the row house neighborhood.

These gardeners also always incorporate antiques and items not normally thought as gardening pieces into their gardens.  

Afterwards we did some driving around the nearby neighborhood and found an beautiful overlook of downtown Cincinnati.

Newport Garden Walk

Today I went to the Newport Garden Walk for the third year in a row.  I love going to this walk because these gardeners are creative.  The neighborhood consists of mainly old row houses built extremely close together.  Even in these small spaces I have seem some really interesting and beautiful designs.  There is no way to show all the pictures but here are a few that show some of the themes that I see and love every year.

 Mirrors are used on walls to accent the plants and make the spaces look larger.

Containers are used everywhere.  In the small row house lots green space is limited so in order to get more in lots of interesting planters and containers are used.

Antiques and other garden ornaments are used so that they look like cute and cottagey instead of hillbilly and kitschy.

 Vertical spaces are just as important as horizontal spaces for planting or hanging other pieces.

Family Gardens

Over the weekend while we were in Bowling Green I had the opportunity to spend some time in my Dad's and Uncle's gardens.  I am jealous of all the space they have something we are short on around here.