Last winter I obsessed over the garden. I scoured seed catalogs, bought graph paper to design flower beds, stood at the back door staring at the bare hill and tried to visualize what it would look like with plants on it.

Now that everything is dead and gardening season is over, I wanted to take a look at the gardens’ transformation through the months.

Back garden

Back hill, marked for flower beds. February 2018

Forsythia in bloom, March 18, 2018

Back hill, March 25, 2018

Back hill after transplanting plants from front garden. April 21, 2018

Moved more plants from out front. May 21, 2018

Bought some plants, others filling in, seedlings starting to grow. June 17, 2018

Flowers blooming, weeds proliferating. July 2018

As filled in as it’s going to get. Late August, 2018

Peak. Some things starting to fade. Early September, 2018.

Time to clear out spent stems…