Oh, I love this path, Linda, through the flower garden. It makes it so convenient.
I know. It's kind of handy, isn't it?
Yeah, and pretty too.
Yeah, I think so. Well, Kristen, welcome to my spring garden.
Oh, thank you, Linda. It's beautiful. You know, I've been here before.
I remember a few years ago.
And you just had to come back.
I did. It's so pretty. I just love it. And the tulips are just amazing here.
I'm so interested in how you have tulips blooming from early spring all the way through spring.
But tell us how you did that.
How'd you do it? Well, it's basically a formula that I work every year,
and I have for probably the past 25 years. And that's that I get blends,
some of which are early blooming, mid blooming, and late blooming.
So literally this year, they started, the white one started March 15th,
and the show will go on till probably the second week in April.
Wow.
Yeah, it's just, they're really pretty incredible.
You know, I get asked all of the time, do I replant every year? Do they come back?
And really, I consider tulips to be annuals.
Right.
And I love them so much. I have to have the show, a reliable show every year.
So basically, I just pull them out when they're finished. I compost them,
and then I replant every year.
I see.
And yes.
Oh, they're just amazing. Yeah. So, but when the tulips are done, what comes next?
I see there's a lot of interesting perennials, spring perennials here.
Your moss phlox is just beautiful right now.
And there's some other little perennials, the golden fever few,
and the adjuga are just beautiful right now.
But what happens in those spaces where the tulips were planted?
Okay, well, the tulips might be the queen of the show,
but they are nothing without the supporting cast.
I think of it as kind of an opera, and these are the supporting cast members.
The phlox is really beautiful this year.
But there are a lot of, there's almost 700 tulips here.
700.
700. So you may think, is there possibly enough stuff in these flower beds
to fill the gaps after they're finished without replanting?
But there really are.
Oh, good.
There are lots of things that have gone to seed in here
that as soon as the temperatures warm up and they have more space,
they will mature and become larger plants.
They fill in that space.
They'll fill in the space.
So there's, I mean, there's everything from chamomile, larkspur, foxglove.
There is a huge stand of daisies over here.
There's roses, there's veronica.
So there's basically a lot of perennials that will fill in the gaps after they're gone.
And it just is, I love it.
It's kind of just a slow show that takes over.
Always something going on.
Well, another thing that I find really interesting about this front yard is the bed shapes.
And it's just an interesting shape.
How did you decide how to do that?
I wish I could claim credit for it, but basically it was mother nature.
Most of the design features in my garden, the bed lines,
a lot of my plantings were just basically decided upon because of problems that I had.
What was the problem?
Well, the problem was I couldn't, this is almost a hundred-year-old oak tree.
And when we moved in, there was nothing here, including grass,
because grass couldn't grow under the heavy shade, under the canopy of it.
And basically where you see the bed lines are where the shade lines were of the tree
and the trees over time.
So I can plant in those and then turf is just in the area that's outside of those bed lines.
That's a great way to plant a garden.
Very practical.
Yeah, and what I also love about it is their naturally curved shape
kind of echoes architectural features that I have in the house itself.
So the arches and everything, it just, again,
I love that when the garden really mimics and speaks to the style of the house.
It just makes the complete picture so much better.
I think so.
Oh, it's just great.
So speaking of the house, I noticed you have some interesting window boxes up on the house.
I'd like to see more with those.
Let's go take a look.
All right, let's do it.
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