The Garden Mom

The Garden Mom is transforming her 1/4 acre of suburbia one plant at a time.

07/16/2026

Simple things make me happy. I swear it. Some people need a big go-go-go existence. I need a quiet morning, birds chirping, burbling water, the wind blowing, and an occasional vacation. 🥰😂☺️

07/02/2026

I’m not the only birdwatcher in my house. Pixie 🧚‍♂️, Olive 🫒, and Lucky 🍀

Cats / indoor cats / Midwest Garden / summer mornings / July Garden / Container Garden

07/01/2026

This is what 47 looks like. It’s birdwatching and coneflowers for me - that’s officially my midlife crisis.

Ted Lare Garden Center pink garden / English garden / cottage garden / semi-formal garden / perennial border / mixed border / echinacea purpurea / new garden / garden inspiration / master gardener

06/29/2026

It’s a hot one! 🌞

06/28/2026

In bloom right now, late June, in my new and new-ish gardens. Perennials take 3 years to look their best and so we are on our way to the dream garden. 🪏 so.many.baby.plants but they have promise!

06/27/2026

Hot pink, upright, megaphone shaped clematis? Sign me up. Year two for this beauty.

Vines / clematis collector / June garden / Midwest Garden /Master Gardener / Iowa Garden

06/26/2026

My little experiment with using succulents in my tabletop containers has some fun little surprises, like these babies trying to escape the pot!

06/25/2026

A mailbox garden has been on the drawing board since the day we moved in. There’s nothing better than a rainbow of color to welcome the family home after a long day. I hope the kids think of this space when they look back to their childhood memories of running out to meet “Mailman Bob” to collect the daily post. This spot is surrounded by dry soil and hot pavement, then gets clobbered by sidewalk salt and a mountain of snow for the winter so plant choices had to be strategic. And even then, I’m
going to keep a close watch to see what can take the heat of this hellstrip/parkway spot. So far, it’s flourishing with very little supplemental watering. Echinacea ’Pow Wow White’, Yarrow ‘Moonshine’, Salvia ‘Rose Marvel’, and Agastache Hyssop ‘Black Adder’ with a baby Clematis ‘Ville de Lyon’ twining up the mailbox itself.

Iowa garden / Master Gardener /Hellstrip Garden / Parkway Planting / Nativar / Coneflowers / Salvia / Hyssop / Dry Garden / Cottage Garden

06/24/2026

Terracotta… I’ve streamlined my containers to all terracotta. Some have “patina” from a fun lime washing project with the kids a few summers back and others are aging to a cloudy white because of all of the minerals in our hard water. Just last week I picked up this sweet little terracotta house at my local thrift store - and maybe I’ll pop a candle in there for a bit of whimsical ambiance in the evenings….

Midwest Garden / Iowa Garden / Master Gardener / Zone 5 Gardening / June Garden / simplicity / lady gardener

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