Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden:
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We’re back enjoying part two of Cherry Ong’s visit last June to the garden of perennial gardening expert Pam Frost on Vancouver, Canada. Cherry visited as part of a tour organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society.
Expert combinations in color and contrast. The dark-leaved smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria, Zone 5 – 8) in the back makes a strong contrast to lighter foliage, and flowers in shades of yellow, yellow-ish green, and white.
Contrasting texture and form is key to an exciting garden design. Here we see bold leaves contrasting with fine ones, and the formal shape of a perfectly trimmed shrub contrasting with the informal plantings around it. No flowers, or even brightly colored foliage, needed here to make a beautiful design.
Planters going up the steps. Each uses different plants, but echoes the same colors – red and pink flowers, contrasting with silver and white foliage. Using similar terra cotta pots for each planting further unifies this area.
Epimedium (Zone 5 – 9) have delicate beautiful flowers in the spring, but their real value in the garden is their long-lasting foliage, which can look delicate, but is quite tough and does well in difficult sites like dry shade.
Moss, wood, stone, and ferns. Simple and perfect.
It is easy to overlook hostas as common and over-planted, but there is a good reason they are used so much – they’re durable, easy to grow, and the foliage is just beautiful.
Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum sp.) with variegation so elegant it looks like it was painted.
A tapestry of green with a Cardiocrinum (Zone 5 – 9) in bloom. These lily relatives thrive in a woodland garden and, after many years of patience, produce towering stems of huge white blooms.
Lily buds ready to burst open, with a
Today we’re in Phoenix, Maryland, visiting Sally Barker’s beautiful garden:
We’re back for more of Cherry Ong’s visit to a great garden today, one that she saw on a tour organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society last summer. This is a collector’s shade garden, full of lots of beautiful and unusual plants, including a stunning collection of Podophyllum (mayapples; hardiness varies, but mostly Zones 6–9).
We’re visiting another garden with Cherry Ong today, one that she saw on a tour organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society last summer. This is a collector’s shade garden, full of lots of beautiful and unusual plants, including a stunning collection of Podophyllum (mayapples; hardiness varies, but mostly Zones 6–9).
Today we’re off to Tennessee to visit Lou Ann’s garden:
We recently visited Carol’s winter garden in Hendersonville, North Carolina (Carol’s Winter Garden) and today we’re headed back to see more of her beauties. Carol’s been gardening here since 2009, and the garden has evolved and matured in beautiful ways in that time.
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We’re tagging along with Cherry Ong today, enjoying pictures from a series of garden tours she went on last June, organized by the Vancouver Hardy Plant Society.
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We’re visiting with Carla Z. Mudry in Malvern, PA, looking back at her garden in January when it was transformed by snow:
Carol in Hendersonville, North Carolina, is sharing some beauties from her winter garden with us today: