Tom's Flower Garden

Mayer's Flower Garden

Years ago(2008) My wife decided she would really like to have a flower garden in the front yard.
We took out the grass, made some terrain using unwanted rocks from the back yard, moved a lot of dirt and rock, planted lots of seed, bulbs and a couple of trees and then sat back and watched it grow.
These pages will take you through the project and show the results. You can see the beginnings at the bottom of this page.

A couple of factors prompted the decision to make the change.

The city had made us cut back our juniper hedge, because it was growing over the edge of the sidewalk. It had taken years to get it nice and full and I was working it back a little bit each year. We were forced to cut it back in December. After a couple years it had still not recovered from the trauma and no longer looked very appealing.
Our water pressure had dropped over the years and the sprinkler system was no longer reaching the center of the lawn.
We wanted to reduce our water consumption.
We really like flowers.

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	Flowers - 2023 More flowers in abundance
	Flowers - 2019 Flowers in abundance
	10 Years Later - 2018 What it looks like after 10 years
	What's New - 2009 New Photos of the garden
	First Snow Flowers still blooming as we receive our first snow of the year
	Flowers in Abundance Groups of flowers in the garden
	Before Once there was lawn and a few flowers
	Construction Some photos as the project progressed
	Early Blooms Early beginnings as things start to grow
	Flower Gallery Flowers in the garden listed alphabetically (2008)
	Wildflowers in our Garden Wildflowers we've been able to grow so far
	Flower List This is a list of the flowers in the garden (2008)
	Wildflower Gallery Wildflowers from New Mexico and Colorado
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