Garden Update--A tour around the house

For the past few weeks when the weather has been fine, it was time to clean up the flower beds for the winter.  Since we were gone two months, they were in sad shape and full of weeds.  So one by one I dug out everything in the separate beds and replanted what I did not toss out.  Here's some before and after photos of the effort.  Around our big building there are fourteen separate places for flowers and plants.  They are narrow, some long and a lot of work.  May have to rethink how many to have what with my joints not cooperating as well.  :-(

These above two are outside the front of the building facing South and West.  There's mostly columbine, lamb's ear and ice plant in front of the tree. Next photos go around the building to the left and facing South and East.

 This one is opposite the top one next to the ramp.

This is the corner of the building facing South.  Those circles used to be for the septic tank, but now the tank holds rainwater.

Before photo on the Southeast side under the church windows, and after cleanup below.

These are out the Southeast side of the church sliding door. Top left photo iris and other flowers were crowded, so I dug it all up and replanted just the iris and a rose bush. Then I lined the beds with rock so the plants won't get accidentally cut.  :-)  In front is part of the blackberry bushes.

Next on the East side between the church and kitchen decks is red basil and overgrown iris and pink columbine.

 Now cut and cleaned up.

This is the East corner at the back of the house.  Replanted iris hope to do well.  This year was not good for my favorite flower for some reason.

Facing East is another blackberry bush planted about 5 years ago.  The ground got dug up, grasses removed and ajuba ground cover planted, plus the rock border to save future plants from accidental cutting. The building is Henry's shed loaded with man stuff.  

This bed is facing Northwest in front of the parking lot on the left side of the building. It has a big holly bush, some iris, tulip and other bulbs.  Large buckets at the back act as a border as well as the bricks on the side and large rocks and pots in front.

This is the door to our part of the house facing Northwest.  We get beautiful sunsets here :-)  The bed in front has a fall blooming flower I found on a path years ago, plus a red rose bush and small maple tree plus flowers around to the right.

This is the longest flower bed facing West.  The tall plant is an Emperor Dahlia which hopefully will bloom in November before it freezes.  This bed contains iris, dahlia to the left, tulips, lamb's ear, seashells and some other things.  These next photos are closeups of the long bed.

Notice two landscaping elements in all these pictures?

This brings us completely around the building to the front church entrance.  In front of the deck are azalea bushes and to the right there is a tall juniper tree about 10 years old; it is taller than the building now.  That completes the tour of the Inochi no Pan Baptist Church in Kobe and also completes the clean up for this year. Yeah, my knees are rejoicing!