Spring in Debbie and Gerald’s Connecticut Garden

27.05.2024 - 10:17 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor

Happy Monday, GPODers!

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Here in Connecticut, the warm weather is really amping up and spring seems to already be making way for summer temperatures. While I would be happy to have some more cooler days before stifling New England humidity rolls through, plants seem to be thriving with the 80°F days and bright sunshine after weeks of clouds and rain.

The warm and sunny spring weather in Connecticut has also been a boon to Debbie and her husband, Gerald, who are enjoying a lush garden already full of beautiful blooms.

Hi! I’m Debbie from Orange, Connecticut. My husband, Gerald, and I enjoy the beauty of nature and the outdoors, so we spend a lot of time in our gardens. We have been gardening around our home for the past 10 years.

Our property measures 1.4 acres and is tw0-thirds wooded. Our plant hardiness zone is 6b. We like using natural stones and rocks from our woods to landscape around our home and gardens. These are photos of our early spring gardens.

The blue forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica, Zones 5–9)love to spread and are so beautiful in early spring when not too much else is blooming.

In our “circle garden” are a variety of shrubs and perennials. In this picture, a purple-flowering clematis has grown up the trellis, and the pink and yellow foxgloves are starting to bloom. The pink rhododendron and the white ‘Mount Airy’ fothergilla (Fothergilla major ‘Mount Airy’, Zones 5–9)next to it are in full bloom.

Returning daffodils, hyacinths, and lambs’ ears (Stachys byzantina and cvs., Zones 4–8) are all blooming underneath our walking stick tree. We also planted spring violas that grace us with their beauty well into summer.

This photo shows part of the wall we built around