Tornado-ravaged yard springs back to original splendor

EDMOND When traveling past the home of Tim Foley at 2600 S. Coltrane you may feel as if you are looking at a large canvas of a French Country house set in peaceful blends of natures colors. However, a year ago this weeks winner of Edmond Yard of the Week would have looked different after a tornado had just damaged the home, uprooted trees and destroyed the landscape.

The first view is that of an expansive area, shaded by many well-groomed native trees and carpeted with a solid lawn, before your eye will be caught by the massive island bed filled with harmoniously shaded colors of impatiens, caladiums, giant hostas, day lilies and large tufts of liriope. More textures are added to the bed with silvery spruces and natural-stone boulders.

There is softness added to the front of the stone and brick house with masses of pentas, angelonia, begonias and scaevola, in pastel beautifully blending shades. Sculptured areas of deep green Mondo grass emphasizes the flower palates of color, as do varieties of ground-cover sedums, moneywort and ornamental blue fescue. Height is added to the landscape with a weeping cedar, spruces, Japanese maple and an ornamental peach. A backdrop of shrubs, with trimmed photinia, yews, laurels, holly, burning bush and spirea, protect the lower layer of flowers. Earth tones appear in the flowerbeds with native rocks and clay pots overflowing with magenta and white impatiens. Gently waving maiden grasses, lantana and Stella del Oro lilies complete the picture.

Two artistic columnar copper flower pots by the entry are a symphony of color with purple fountain grass, elegant tuberous begonias and trailing Mandevilla.

For overcoming Oklahomas weather challenges and giving us a feast for the eye, Edmond Beautiful would like to reward Tim Foley with a gift certificate to Home Depot on Broadway, a gift card to TLC Nursery and a six-month subscription to The Edmond Sun. The Yard of the Week is co-sponsored by Edmond Beautiful, the Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce and The Sun. To share another beautiful Edmond garden, you may nominate it by calling 341-2808.

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Tornado-ravaged yard springs back to original splendor