Today a friend and I toured 8 different gardens in 80+ degree heat. The temp in the car said 88 on the drive home. Thankfully some of most of the gardens were in shade which helped. Before going on to the pictures, I have to say a universal plant in each of the yards was helleborus, which is the plant every part is poisonous. OK on with the photos…
above: Giant hosta, Empress Wu, or something close. A lot of the hosta were looking a bit peeked today.
This is an upright bush that looks like it should be a ground cover. Very striking contrast to its surrounding buddies.
very healthy heuchera with pretty orange daylilies
closeup of blooming groundcover, sedum. it’s quite heat-resistant
the first garden had not one but two giant Japanese maple trees. heaven on earth!
here is a shot of one of the Japanese maples from the other side of the yard.
here is your garden variety woodland frog
what a lovely blooming wall. a picture does not do it justice
isn’t this just about the prettiest thing you ever did see?
lush moss roses in bloom
more moss roses in bloom
more moss roses. note the cool setup with the post and bracketed metal plant holder.
who knew bricks could look so pretty?
Not sure what this piece of art is for other than beauty but it is cut bamboo, stacked horizontal. almost looks like it could be a start to a beehive for artistic bees?
cushioned astilbe
make a soft bed for my
fairie woodland dreams
these lovelies have velvety soft leaves and look like violets but they aren’t. forgot the name
What a sweet arrangement. I want that fish!
Looks like a fossil and I think it is one among very nice rocks. This yard had a bunch of rocks. I wonder if they’d miss this one?
One lady had a notebook of every plant in her yard. I couldn’t believe there was a climbing black-eyed Susan when I saw hers so she showed me in her book. She also has a climbing HYDRANGEA. The thing is a monster and takes up a whole corner of her yard. I want one!
Look at this oak tree gall.
Have you ever seen a tri-colored beech tree? I hadn’t — until today.
Look at this cute new ginkgo the lady planted. Just a few feet tall.
This is a very interesting evergreen. Curved needles and white on the tops of each branch. The cones were strange looking also but it wasn’t close enough to get a good shot of it. Forgot the name but I know which nursery she got it from!
This is a type of maple I never saw before. She told me the name but I forgot it. It’s beautiful!
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I loved all your photos Lisa. What a lovely way to spend the day! I am going to copy the brick planter idea 🙂.
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Glad you liked them, Christine. I also heard about a way to use FREE pallets to make planters, both laying flat and filling with dirt or keeping vertical and attaching hangers to the sides.
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Yes that’s right. A neighbor used pallets for various plantings. They looked pretty 🙂
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A beautiful, thriving garden.
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Yes they were!
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👍👌
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Gorgeous plants and flowers! I like that idea of planting things in the cinder block bricks! :)
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It looked really pretty. With that setup you could add a whole arrangement of pots around it as well. One cool thing I didn’t take a pic of was her stockade fence. She attached bits and pieces of other wooden fence that people threw away, then attached cool metal decorated butterflies, etc. to each piece. Such an ingenious idea!
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I like the blooming wall…I love when nature mixes in with other things.
Off topic… I want to tell you…I know you don’t like spoilers…if you plan to see the movie Yesterday… another blogger and I talked about it in my first post today (Starry Eyes)…don’t read the comments…I just wanted to tell you.
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OK thank you for the spoiler alert :) Just was out and about and got back.
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Love the blooming wall!
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Oh yes, I forgot which post this was. These individuals have a passion for gardening. A wall like that takes several years to establish itself like this one. Time (and $$) is the garden’s friend. I’ve been at this place 8 years and am just getting started with filling it
in, but now that I have the time there isn’t much money :(
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I did a poor mans version lol…I have vines that I started on our fence row and it is beautiful…
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Take some pics and post them! I’d like to see what you did.
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Also in a small corner I have a fiberglass bench that came off of a ride at the long defunct Opryland…I will
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cool!
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