Barnum Garden Tour: Devin and Daniel's Dreamy Cottage Garden

Devin and Daniel's cottage garden is absolutely stunning. Plants can be beautiful by themselves -- and D & D have many pretty plants -- but it's the combinations they've created that makes this garden truly fantastic.

The shrubs and trees, the vines and hedges, and all of the clusters of color and texture between show a true talent for design in addition to a quite obviously green thumb.

What a dreamy place to begin our Barnum Neighborhood Garden Tours.

Our Names: Devin and Daniel

Garden Style: Cottage

How Long We've Been Gardening Here: 5 years

What's New In The Garden This Year: This year we are planting a part sun garden on the north side of our house. We also did a raised vegetable garden bed where we're planting a few different varieties of cucumbers and squash, Brussels sprouts and eggplants.  

What We Love To Grow: Everything! We've always had an extensive vegetable garden and also perennial gardens. Some of our favorite plants include bee balm, lavender, meadow rue, columbines, bleeding hearts, and peonies.

What We Cannot Grow: We've had success with almost everything we've planted considering we select plants that thrive in our climate. We stray away from exotic or tropical plants that have a hard time adapting to our swinging temperatures.  

Biggest Battle:  We're fighting a constant battle with mallow weed.  It's our number one offender! 

Our Advice To New Gardeners In The 'Hood:  Amend your soil if you need to, select drought tolerant plants and use mulch or a ground cover to conserve water!     

Favorite Nursery/Supply Shop: We love O'toole's on Colfax/Quail.  

Their pup, Atlas, looking especially handsome.

Thank you both for giving us a peek into your beautiful Barnum garden!

Have a lovely Barnum or Barnum West garden of your own you'd like to share with your neighbors? Submit your photographs to the blog by emailing them to welcometobarnum (at) gmail.com. Don't forget to leave your comments for Devin and Daniel below!