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Transformations and Additions in Suzannah’s Missouri Garden
02.09.2024 - 05:44 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
Happy Monday GPODers!
I’m very excited to start the week back in the garden of Suzannah Pugh. Several weeks back, I shared a couple photos Suzannah sent over in compilation post that featured two other gardens (check that out here). The little snippet we got to see of her space was magical, and I was eager to see more. Over the past couple weeks I was thrilled when I saw a handful of emails come in from Suzannah, showcasing different aspects of her garden and how they came to be. I finally had the chance to gather all of her submissions together, and below is a gorgeous tour through her small space and the changes that shaped it over the years.
Hello! I’m Suzannah Dolanc Pugh. I have a .36 acre yard in Springfield, Missouri, garden zone 6b.
I wanted to share some photos of what I call my “Swing Garden.” This garden was imagined after losing a very large silver maple tree (Acer saccharinum, Zones 3–9). Half of the yard, including the swing and play-set that my children played on daily went from full shade to full sun. I mourned the loss of the tree for several weeks, and then started to feel a bit of excitement over creating and imagining a whole new, and very sunny space. We did plant a very large red oak to replace the maple, but we won’t have shade for many years now. The garden area was executed in several phases over the next few years.
The sad pile of mulch that was left of the maple tree that came down.
The first year after the tree was gone, we planted new trees and had a permanent swing structure and an arbor installed. I knew I wanted to make a pollinator garden around the new swing structure, so we started with some echinacea, and some flowering shrubs: Pink ‘Polka’ weigela (Weigela florida ‘Polka’, Zones
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