Birdhouse Garden
This is another little nook in our garden. The bird house itself was a birthday gift from my beautiful family.
When we first got it we didn't have many birds at all in the garden and it looked so lonely so I bought the fake birds just to brighten up the place. Ironically to this day no bird has nested in it, but that's O.K, it still sparks a happy memory every time I see it and acts a reference point when I describe where we've been working or where I am when Paul calls me for a 'cuppa' or dinner.
Climbing the pole of the bird house is an American honeysuckle. Directly underneath is a simple English box planting with a hot pink single oleander in the middle of it. Adjacent to the actual bird house is a magnolia grandiflora, an apricot oleander then one of six Paulownia trees that sweep along just inside the outer northern boarder of the lower front gardens.
We used a small leafed pink, all summer long flowering pig face as a ground cover here and throughout many of the gardens. It was a cutting from my sister Christine who, like most gardeners, has always been more than willing to share her knowledge and plants. In earlier years I filled the gaps in with bright red petunias just for a bit more colour.