Glad Monday GPODers!

We’re beginning the week off with a colourful backyard transformation in Northridge, California. Terry Sanders shared her flower-filled backyard in SoCal earlier this 12 months (Terry’s California Backyard), however in the present day we’re a particular backyard venture that was accomplished this summer season.

Terry had an ideal spot subsequent to her pool shed for a superb container backyard, however the area wanted a revamp to match her apparent love for colour.

Nice bones, however not a lot else. The tiered shelf is a container gardeners dream, a shiny blue pergola brings some wanted shade and a stupendous pop of colour, and huge containers of woody vegetation make for an excellent basis. Nevertheless, the impartial colour scheme and minimalist design isn’t bringing a lot curiosity or persona to this nook of the backyard.

Significantly for a gardener who embraces whimsy and shiny, enjoyable colours. Terry’s first step was taking the pool shed itself from a bland, beige backdrop to a colourful cottage with year-round flower energy.

As soon as the pool shed was adorned with character and colour, the encompassing gardens got here collectively. Terry’s assortment of containers and additions of painted tiles and mosaics collided to create an area that appears lush, despite the fact that it’s all surrounded by concrete.

Now the tiered shelf is the right spot for Terry’s cool cacti assortment, turning into a cohesive a part of a nook filled with curiosity fairly than lone plantings that aren’t linked to the remainder of her backyard.

After all, it’s not simply cacti. Different containers deliver much more colour with ‘Superbissima’ combine painted tongue (Salpiglossis sinuata ‘Superbissima’, annual), in addition to dahlias and Dutch irises (Iris hollandica ‘Apollo’, Zones 6–9) planted within the little beds across the blue pergola.

Painted tiles gave plain pots some added curiosity, and a second door on the pool shed bought coated an unimaginable faux-stained glass impact. I really like Terry’s maximalist design, mixing and matching shiny colours and numerous patterns.

The added bonus of a container backyard is that the pots might be assertion items by themselves. Whether or not it’s a shiny, stunning colour just like the turquoise blue on the suitable, or one thing with numerous attention-grabbing element just like the pink and inexperienced mosaic on the suitable.

An area completely remodeled! Scroll again to the highest of the submit to get a reminder of what this started as, and the magic that Terry has been capable of create.

A better take a look at the unimaginable painted tiles used to rework a as soon as primary trough-style planter. It took me a few glances earlier than I observed that Terry masterfully matched among the tiles with the coreopsis—I imagine the variability Massive Bang™ Redshift coreopsis (Coreopsis x ‘Redshift’, Zones 5–9)—she planted inside.

Thanks a lot for sharing this unimaginable backyard venture with us, Terry! Whereas I might go on for ages concerning the pleasure and enjoyable you added to the area, the earlier than and after actually speaks for itself.

For those who’ve accomplished any backyard tasks like Terry has this summer season, we’d like to see what you created (even when you forgot to take earlier than footage, like I at all times do). Observe the instructions under to submit your images.

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Have images to share? We’d like to see your backyard, a selected assortment of vegetation you like, or a beautiful backyard you had the prospect to go to!

To submit, ship 5-10 images to [email protected] together with some details about the vegetation within the footage and the place you took the images. We’d love to listen to the place you might be situated, how lengthy you’ve been gardening, successes you might be happy with, failures you discovered from, hopes for the long run, favourite vegetation, or humorous tales out of your backyard.

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