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Driveway Garden, June 2004

I planted a garden in July, 2002 along the back of my driveway atop a stone retaining wall. I was trying for a drought-tolerant dragonfly garden and it seems to be working.

The driveway garden has the following plants:

• Stonecrop (Sedum Kamtschaticum 'Variegatum')
• Yarrow (Achillea Apricot, Huffnung, JungFrau, Martina)
• Butterfly Weed (Asclepias Tuberosa)
• White Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea White Swan)
• Cushion Spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias)
• Coreopsis Verticillata
• Stonecrop (Sedum Spectabile 'Neon')

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(11 JUN 04)

(25 JUN 04)

The coneflowers are leafy and buds should be forming soon. There are small numbers of achillea scattered among them.

(25 JUN 04)

(25 JUN 04)

The delicate yarrow are growing between the other plants. Silky yellow and white plus the apricot-colored varieties are growing this year.

(10 JUN 04)

The euphorbia blooms have turned from yellow to salmon. The coreopsis is reaching maximum height now and should be blooming within a month.

(25 JUN 04)

The coreopsis bloomed a couple of weeks later.

(10 JUN 04)

The first sprig of butterfly weed shows up in the garden. Butterflies and dragonflies line up in my back yard waiting to land...

(25 JUN 04)

(25 JUN 04)

(25 JUN 04)

This year I decided to grow string beans so I've put up a bean tower. I alternated plantings around the support strings, but I'm not sure which beans are which (there are two varieties) so I'll have to wait for them to flower. They are growing about a foot a week right now.

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