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Charlie’s Wonderful Wyoming Garden
11.06.2024 - 09:15 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
Hi GPODers!
So far the theme of this week’s submissions is garden beauty despite challenging conditions! Yesterday we saw how Fran’s garden stays lush despite lots of deer activity, and today we’re visiting Charlie, who gardens in Wyoming despite a laundry list of obstacles.
Living in Wyoming can be quite the gardening challenge, especially when you’ve started with nothing but red rock and a few aspens surrounding the property. We’ve lived here four years.
The first thing we did was remove the rock, and then because I wanted an instant garden I put seeds down the first year. They included bachelor’s button (Centaurea cyanus, annual), daisies, poppies, lupine, zinnias, baby’s breath (Gypsophila paniculata, Zones 3–9), phlox, and what I call Bouncing Betty.
Our biggest challenges here are the high altitude, late frosts, blinding wind, and lack of moisture. We receive less than 12 inches of rain annually, so we count on heavy snowfall in the winter to help. When we don’t receive snowfall, many trees and perennials die. This year the peonies survived but didn’t bloom. However, we gardeners are the eternal optimists, aren’t we? My favorite style of garden is meadow-like, but I am learning to love more formal garden beds.
Charlie, does it take hours for guests to make it up to your front door?? I would be too tempted to stop and admire all of these fabulous zinnias.
Not hard to see Charlie’s love of meadow gardens on display. Bright red poppies (Papaver rhoeas, annual) with bachelor’s button (Centaurea cyanus, annual) is a quintessential meadow garden pairing.
More of Charlie’s classic meadow gardens.
Paper birch (Betula papyrifera, Zones 2–7) isn’t as commonly found in meadow gardens, but Charlie has created a scene I
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