{"id":947,"date":"2008-04-20T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/04\/20\/hens-and-chicks-in-the-garden\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T21:46:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:46:58","slug":"hens-and-chicks-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2008\/04\/20\/hens-and-chicks-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Hens and Chicks in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/104\/306398715_49775ad925_o.gif\" alt=\"Join Green Thumb Sunday\" \/><\/a><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Join<\/a><\/center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/2410040858\/\" title=\"IMG_3384 by triciawd, on Flickr\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/2410040858\/\" title=\"IMG_3384 by triciawd, on Flickr\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3136\/2410040858_f823f1f9c9.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3384\" height=\"291\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we first moved into our house it had a garden, but not a great garden.  It had a lot of weedy plants that spread throughout the garden and even into the grass.  I can&#8217;t remember the name of this simple green leafed plant, but it was everywhere and it&#8217;s notoriously invasive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Other than the weedy plant that took about four years to completely get rid of, there were mainly veggies, rhubarb, raspberries, strawberries, lilies and what appeared to be a fairly young apple tree and pear tree &#8211; planted <em>in the middle<\/em> of the yard!<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve got a few pictures of what the garden looked like before we started landscaping, but I think they&#8217;re on my other computer.  Anyway &#8230; you can probably picture it. It was pathetic!<\/p>\n<p>At the front of the house, beside our very narrow driveway there&#8217;s a very small garden bed.  This was filled with hens and chicks.  They were straggly as they were trying to grow in a very shady area.<\/p>\n<p>When I was planting new plants in my newly created raised garden beds in the spring of 2002 I moved most of the hens and chicks to the back garden beds.   As you can see from the photo above they are thriving in the sunny backyard. <em>Click on the photo for a larger view if you&#8217;d like &#8211; the larger photo is quite nice<\/em>.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>The Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum), particularly in this especially sunny area have spread out and grown into the crevices of the interlocking stones.   They look lovely &#8230; even better after I&#8217;ve picked out the dead leaves and mulch that get stuck in them over winter!<\/p>\n<p>As for that very shady garden bed? Once I removed the hens and chicks I planted shade loving plants like Bleeding heart, lily of the valley, a fern, hosta and in a less shady area a Stella D&#8217;ora daylily, plus a few other plants.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I spent some time today adding new plants to that small flower bed and later today I&#8217;ll be planting more plants (that I purchased two weeks ago!) in the front boulevard.  I&#8217;ll tell you what I planted in a new post once I&#8217;m finished the job.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll have a few photos too.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime &#8230; if you want to see an older picture of what my back yard garden looked like in July of 2003 &#8211; one year after most of the plants had been added to the garden, here you go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/169897457\/\" title=\"wideview2 by triciawd, on Flickr\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/169897457\/\" title=\"wideview2 by triciawd, on Flickr\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/55\/169897457_789a490673.jpg\" alt=\"wideview2\" height=\"339\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The garden has matured quite a bit since that time and I&#8217;ve managed to add <em>more<\/em> plants! 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