Evolution of Bernal Heights Cottage Garden

I am starting my twenty-first year tending to this cottage garden on Bernal Heights near Holly Park.  Last year, the previous owner told me she was selling and moving into an assisted care apartment in Healdsburg.  I thought that was the end of this job.  But the new owner turned out to be the next door neighbor and wanted me to continue to work this garden and also take on theirs.   They built a new fence between the two spaces with two openings that will eventually connect the two gardens.  Lots of opportunities here and I look forward blending these areas together.

May 2023

New owner the family next door  

March 2023

The old fence between the two back yards.  Already connected but I don’t have a good photo.  There is now an opening between the Cecil Brunner rose and the mop head hydrangea. 

January 2023

March 2022

April 2019 - New hell-strip  

May 2018 - Rose on Arbor  

April 2016 - Front entry garden  

June 2015

December 2014 - Tree Dahlias 

June 2014

 March 2014 - Before the sidewalk hell-strip was installed.

June 2013

Feb 2013

Applying lessons learn from my trip to England, summer of 2012  

March 2012

May 2010

Bay Street Perennial Beds

 Three beds of perennials: Forest Edge, Gold, Silver and Bronze, Meadow bed.   Here is the third in a series highlighting the gardens I am hired to take care of.   This post shows you all eight years, in reverse order, since I designed and grew this garden.  

After viewing this video clip again, I realized I should have cut that digitalis out of that bed.  That purple ruined the entire sweep.   I knew it when I took the video, but I have difficulty cutting back prime self sowers.

Eight year 2023