Marty’s 2025 Backyard Highlights, Half 4

Blissful Monday GPODers!

We’ve seen a spectacular assortment of eye-catching crops, artistic combos and elegant scenes from Marty Oostveen’s backyard in Douglassville, Pennsylvania (Zone 7a), however at the moment we’ve acquired one final batch of pictures showcasing her 2025 highlights. Make sure you take a look at the opposite 2025 highlights she shared, when you missed them: Half 1, Half 2 and Half 3.

I lastly acquired round to getting some extra footage from my gardening yr 2025. We began out dry, after a really dry 2024, however then it began raining in spring, when abruptly the backyard actually got here again to life.

‘The Yellow Backyard”, which was made in reminiscence of my mother, who liked every little thing yellow. A little bit of pink snuck in when some yellow and orange coneflowers reverted to pink. In early summer time the lilies take off and my backyard turns right into a aromatic yellow backyard.

Beds close to the She Shed. I develop the celosia from seed or purchase a tray with small crops. Earlier than planting, I reduce each plant in half, making them bushier and fuller.

Clouds reflecting in my pond

These are the beds going through away from the She Shed. You’ll be able to see the raised mattress in the course of the entrance backyard. Across the raised mattress are gravel paths after which yet one more mattress going through the walkway in entrance of the home.

The mattress on the sidewalk. That is the blue and yellow “Ukrainian Backyard,” so named for my husband whose mother and father got here from the Ukraine following WWII.

That is the mattress close to the She Shed with the celosia, now all grown in.

Child ferns are rising in all of the nooks and crannies of the outdated wooden I take advantage of as edging for the beds. Ever so typically I put a name out on my Fb web page to get extra wooden as items disintegrate into nothingness or birds pull them to items to seek for bugs.

A group of hostas and pulmonaria round my yellow magnolia and summersweet (Clethra alnifolia, Zones 4–9).

I may go on and on, however there’s at all times the upcoming season. In the meantime I’ve digitalis and celosia seedlings rising within the basement, retaining me busy. In case anybody is , you possibly can comply with my backyard on my Fb web page: Marty Oostveen

Blissful gardening everybody!

Thanks a lot for sharing all of those beautiful pictures of your beautiful gardens with us, Marty! I hope 2026 gives you with simply as many marvelous backyard moments, and that we proceed to see your inspiring updates and highlights.

The 2026 rising season can be in full swing earlier than we all know it, even when it nonetheless feels painfully distant for some, so contemplate sharing your backyard highlights from final yr earlier than new flowers and recent foliage steal our consideration. Observe the NEW instructions under to submit your pictures to Backyard Picture of the Day!

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