
The sidewalk skirts the garage portion of our house and takes you up to the front porch (beginning sidewalk garden layout). While walking along the front sidewalk in September you would have passed by the red mums and our endlessly blooming, no not hydrangea, 'Oranges & Lemons' gaillardia! I can't say enough good things about gaillardia, which is also known as a blanket flower. Our butterfly magnet bloomed until the end of the growing season. Even after the blooming was done the seedheads continued to provide us with fun little globes to look at. The gaillardia is still green, not all of it, but most of it.
You would also pass by the sedum garden on the right. You can barely see it in the picture but it's there. The 'Blue Spruce' sedum and a little 'Autumn Joy' are peaking out for their photos. Directly oppisite of the sedum garden is a garden with liriope and daylilies. None of the daylilies bloomed last year. It was probably becaus ethey came in a box and were very young plants. I'm expecting an awesome show next year. Let's just hope I'm not disappointed. I mentioned this little garden spot once before in a post of its own but blogger got hungry and ate my homework.

If you look close enough you can see the salvias (Salvia nemorosa) I propagated in spring blooming. These salvias began small but managed to display nice bloom stalks by late summer. On the far end of the sidewalk the rosemary was doing well as an edible ornamental while the butterfly bush was peaking out from beside the front porch.
The front sidewalk garden came a long way! Now what can I do with it next year? Hmm...
Pay no attention to the dandelion. He is just a figment of your imagination. Really. Nothing to see here. Yep no dandelions. Just pretty green grass.