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The lovely Maidenhair receives a late fall groom and is maintenance free in the Spring, except for daily watering. 🙂
Annual grooming for the native sword ferns, two down too many to go!
Siberian iris, the first blooms from Paeonia Francis, forget me nots, and of course the wild daisies obscure the spent tulips and narcissus. This is the outer crescent’s first year, since expanding the border last year.
The same section looking east instead of west, foxgloves towering over emerging lilies, and a bit of the front yard beyond the sitting rock. The pictures are clickable if you want more detail….
Under the beauty bush and ust outside the west garden gate, the one with the musk rose draped over it. 🙂
The flash washed out the deep red a bit, but the background buds are true to color.
Siberian Iris, Flight of Butterflies here’s a link to the product page on White Flower Farms, but I have to say my photo looks entirely different than theirs! They do offer a “Wings Over Water” collection that looks much closer to the charming blue in the secret garden.
Native iris. Mine came from a generous neighbor. For more about this charming family visit the Wild Garden
Astrantia major “Shaggy” blooming under the snowball bush.
I’ve forsaken the paper garden journal for this virtual one, having made the momentous decision to modernize, it occurred to me I should take a picture every day, recording a year in the garden. I may not post them daily, but I’ll try to update more often. 🙂
The climbing hydrangea on the southwest arbor
Rosa Sally Holmes hitting her stride
A closer look at a cluster of the same the rose
And underneath, hiding Sally’s homely ankles is a small cluster of Astrantia major Shaggy
As the garden matures annuals play a smaller role, but there’s still a few color spots a tender fuchsia (Marinka) joins winter pansies and a baby tassel fern by the front steps.
Life in the secret garden 