I now live in the house I grew up in as a child as I moved back here (from another part of the same town) after my mom passed away.
So the point is my dad loved to grow roses, dahlias and gladiolas and had them in what is now my south side rose bed which runs along the south side of the house. So that was a rose bed and now so many years later is again a rose bed although the roses are newer ones. Day loved tulips too and we always had those. My mom was an aweful flower gardener but a great veggie gardener. We always had a large veggie garden with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, carrotts, peas, parsley and dill, strawberries, rasberries, currant and gooseberry shrubs. I am sure there was more I am forgetting to mention.
I started off gardening here with the more typical mixed beds (no roses at that time) some daylilies and I wanted flowers to attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Plus just fIowers that appealed to me. Just sort of mixed things up. My efforts never looked great. Really just looked like a jumbled mess. Eventually I learned to focus on plants that worked for me. Got the rose crazies and the daylily crazies and made my bed sections more of the one thing only look. Works for me.
I do have lots of shrubs mostly of the kind to attract the backyard songbirds and the birds love it here. The garden is quite diverse only in sections instead of all plants mixed together.
