Patio Plants

A patio to enjoy!

Our patio is a well used part of the garden. This is where we enjoy early morning coffee, Green Thumber lunches, summery cool drinks, and numerous dinners. Potted plants add colour and soften the patio hardscape.

The first tree we planted at Keppel Croft was a ginkgo tree. The saucer magnolia is our mortgage tree, planted to celebrate that last payment 52 years ago.

The splendid huge crabapple tree must have been planted by pioneers and is beginning to show its age. When Bill planted the birch tree as a little sapling we discovered an old unused well, lined with stones.

Bill groups a variety of pots to suggest gardens on the patio. The low patio stone walls often end up crowded with potted plants. It is an easy place to provide shade, water and care.

The patio pond, which Bill built, is lined with heavy plastic. Through the gardening season frogs take up residence.

Raccoons fished out the koi that lived in the pond. One year when we put goldfish in the pond a blue heron enjoyed eating them all.

The potted palms, ferns and other tender potted plants spend the cold months in our house. They add an interesting touch to the patio. A Japanese store door curtain provides us with privacy at the back door.

Not all patio guests are invited...