There is nothing like a garden tour for some inspiration and the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s “Gardens for connoisseurs Tour” is one of the best. The gardens, all private, ranged from highly manicured to woodland all in the heart of the city. Here are some photos I took….. I liked the way formal elements were incorporated in to this [...]
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GARDENS FOR CONNOISSEURS TOUR
Posted in Companion Planting, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Groundcovers, Harmony, mixed border, Outdoor Living Spaces, Shade Gardening, Shrubs, tagged Versailles, Atlanta botanical garden, garden tour Atlanta, Connoisseurs garden tour, groundplane, Japanese Maples, Patio garden, woodland garden, manicured garden, Vaux le Vicomte on May 19, 2012 | 7 Comments »
GARDENING WITH GRANDCHILDREN
Posted in Roses, Shrubs, tagged David Austin Rose, Gardening with children, Rose Teasing Georgia on April 30, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Spent a glorious week in Boston with my grandchildren and much to my delight, the older boy is interested in gardening! We visited nurseries where, like a true dirt-bunny, he wanted everything he saw. Together we planted a David Austin rose ‘Teasing Georgia’, and started seeds. He choose very colourful Zinnias & some basil for [...]
GARDEN TOUR part 1
Posted in Clematis, Companion Planting, Flowering Trees, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Roses, Shrubs, Small trees, Viburnums, Wildflowers, tagged Clematis Carnaby, Clematis Duchess of Edinburgh, Cornus florida, Cotinus coggygria Royal Purple, Dogwood trees, garden tour, Knockout Roses pink, Lady Bank Rose, native blue phlox, Phlox divericata, purple smoke bush, Rosa banksia, Rose Madame Alfred Carrier, Snowball Viburnum, Styrax obassia, Trellis, Viburnum Kern's Pink, Viburnum macrocephalum, Viburnum opulus on April 14, 2012 | 4 Comments »
“You should have seen it last week!” The familiar phrase heard from gardeners, when showing visitors around. Well to avoid that I’m posting a time-lapse kind of garden tour. Photos from the garden over the last two weeks. The Dogwoods in the meadow, like most other spring-flowering plants, cooked in the 80 degree temperatures. the blossoms [...]
FROM GARDEN TO VERANDA
Posted in Clematis, Companion Planting, Cutting flowers, Perennials, Roses, Viburnums, Vines, tagged bouqet of roses & clematis, clematis, companion planting, House & garden, Roses, veranda, viburnum on April 10, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Bringing bouquets from the garden onto the veranda is a nice way to connect the garden to the house. None of the big pots of hydrangeas are here yet. I wait till the 15th of April before taking them out of the Bothy. That is our last frost date. As mentioned in [...]
CAN IT BE ….SPRING?
Posted in Camellias, Companion Planting, Flowering Trees, Garden Design, Outdoor Living Spaces, Shade Gardening, Shrubs, Small trees, tagged camellias, circle of friends, daffodils, Daphne odora, spiraea Fujimo Pink, SPRING on February 6, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I can’t believe I went from this.. to this in one day!! How wonderful to be back in Georgia, where it appears we are in full-blown spring…. The gardening to do list grows daily as the overwhelming season is upon us. Trying to separate the list into A) what will make an impact in the garden [...]
MIXED EMOTIONS
Posted in Camellias, Shade Gardening, winter garden, tagged Camellia, chill hours, frost-kissed, micro climate, peonies on January 4, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Well, it really turned cold …. for middle Georgia. The temperatures were in the teens last night, according to my thermometer. The predicted 20 degrees was 18 here in my micro-climate. While I dread the camellias that are open, turning to brown mush, above. I am thrilled that the peonies will have the required chill [...]
WINTER GARDEN WALK
Posted in Camellias, Flowering Trees, Garden Design, Shade Gardening, winter garden, tagged balanced composition, Camellia, Camellia Herme, camellia magnoliaeflora, camellia Rutledge Minix, Daphne odora, Prunus mume, winter garden on December 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Although it has been a bit dreary and raining I couldn’t resist taking a walk in the garden today. I could see the Japanese Flowering Apricot (Prunus mume) from the kitchen window but to experience the fragrance I needed to venture outdoors. Plenty of eye candy wherever one looks. Here at Hamilton House, the scale [...]
A GARDEN VISIT
Posted in best friends, Camellias, Cats, Focal Point, Garden Design, Outdoor Living Spaces, Shade Gardening, Small trees, winter garden, tagged Camellia 'Daikagura, Camellia Ava Maria, Camellia Cotton Candy, Camellia Martha's Dream, camellia Yultide, Focal Point, Ginkgo biloba, Margaret Moseley, Prunus 'Kwanzan', Prunus mume, Seating area on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I visited with Margaret Moseley. As usual I came home with a list of ’must have’ plants. Margaret has been an inspiration for many gardeners. Every season her garden is filled beauty wherever one looks. Above, a welcoming entrance… the large tree to the right is a Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), straight ahead is a Japanese Flowering Apricot (Prunus [...]
TAKING IT EASY
Posted in Camellias, Cats, tagged gardening magazines, kitties, Margaret Moseley on December 1, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It has been raining, or just plain cold and not pleasant to be working outside right now, so I’m just taking it easy. That means cuddling with the kitties in front of a fire…. Meet Dahlia, above, she is shy and this is her first appearance on the blog. Her pillow, a gift from Margaret [...]
A COLOURFUL TIME OF THE YEAR
Posted in autumn colour, Camellias, Hydrangeas, tagged Autumn colour, camellia & fall colour, Cornus florida, dogwood fall colour, oakleaf hydrangea fall on November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Autumn is definitely the most colourful time of the year in my garden. Above, fall foliage and camellias. The dogwoods (Cornus florida) are at their peak with both the foliage and the fruits ablaze. I just love the way this tree frames the veranda and gives me a marvelous view of the [...]
GARDENING IN THE SOUTH
Posted in autumn colour, Camellias, Companion Planting, Hydrangeas, Shrubs, Vegetable Garden, Wildflowers, tagged Beekeeper, Camellia 'Daydream', camellia sasanqua, Camellia sasanqua 'Winter's Charm, Camellia sasanqua Jean May, Chinese Witchhazel, fall gardening, Hanna Jiman, honey, Loropetalum chinense, Non-stop gardening, peppers, Vegetable Garden on October 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps what I appreciate most about gardening in the south is the fact that it is year round. While many of the deciduous hydrangeas are loosing their foliage, the Arum groundcover is coming into its own and will soon blanket the ground. Then there are the shrubs that bloom a second time. Above, the [...]
FALL TOUR
Posted in Accessories, Camellias, Companion Planting, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Hydrangeas, Potager, Roses, Vegetable Garden, Viburnums, tagged cutting garden, design, garden bones, garden feature, garden Rooms, potager, Putti, veg garden, viburnum on October 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The area of the garden I’m sharing now on this Fall Tour is little seen because it’s incomplete. Not that any garden is ever ‘done’ or completed, however this part is has only ‘bones’ and is waiting for me to flesh out the details. Till now it did not seem too pressing because all the important plants were [...]
THE FIRST CAMELLIA
Posted in autumn colour, Camellias, Companion Planting, Hydrangeas, Shade Gardening, tagged Camellia sasanqua 'Sparkling Burgundy', Camellia sinensis, companion planting, Hydrangea, Martha Tate, Penny McHenry, shade garden, tea plant on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first camellia to bloom in my garden is Camellia sinensis, the Tea Plant. No big drumroll for it is not the showiest, but then neither are crocuses, yet we delight to see them. This plant is my introduction to the Camellia Season, and yes, this is the plant from which tea is made. Fast on [...]
CHANGE OF HYDRANGEA
Posted in Cutting flowers, Hydrangeas, Shade Gardening, tagged chartreuse hydrangeas, cutting garden flowers, Dried hydrangeas, hydrangea 'Annabelle', Hydrangea arborescense 'Annabelle', hydrangea macrophylla, lilies, Lilium 'Montreal' on September 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In a recent post I bemoaned the fact that my “interesting hydrangeas’ had no impact in the July landscape. Today, however, the ‘ interesting hydrangeas’… are still interesting… whereas the July impact hydrangea… not so much. So, I will stay with the interesting ones in the circle of friends & plant the babies that [...]
