Pleased Friday, GPODers!
When you acquired the Fall 2025 situation of Positive Gardening journal in your mailbox, you’ll have seen Lynn Fournier’s unbelievable backyard in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, gracing the pages. We had been first launched to Lynn’s lush designs final fall (take a look at that characteristic right here: Lynn’s Backyard in Ontario), and it didn’t take us lengthy to fall in love with the beautiful panorama she created with the assistance of her husband, Ray. At this time she is again with a take a look at this 12 months’s rising season and a few implausible additions made to the backyard.
This has been fairly an extended, scorching, and humid summer season in my neck of the woods, and I’ve needed to prohibit my gardening chores to mornings. This 12 months’s spring and early summer season didn’t disappoint, however as we now head into late summer season I really feel a little bit of disappointment as crops start to look slightly drained. Additionally, rabbits have been feasting on a few of my favorites, and it’s been a difficult train attempting varied strategies to discourage them . . . largely they’re successful!
New this 12 months are the ‘Sutton’s Apricot’ foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea ‘Sutton’s Apricot’, Zones 4–8), and three little boxwoods (Buxus spp. and cvs., Zones 4–9) planted in pots and being skilled into birds.
These stunning stone steps are an entry level by way of a sloped part of Lynn’s backyard, and the right spot for her new potted topiary birds.
The opposite addition to Lynn’s backyard this 12 months, ‘Sutton’s Apricot’ foxgloves, is displaying off these peachy pink blooms that give the cultivar its title. It’s a beautiful shade to combine and mingle with the opposite pink and purple blooms which can be outstanding within the backyard.
A more in-depth take a look at the small topiaries that Lynn is coaching: I ponder if she is planning on retaining these container-sized, or if she’s going to allow them to develop to finally plant along with her massive creations?
And talking of these bigger crops, it’s nice to see them nonetheless wanting pristine this summer season. Boxwood blight and the field tree moth are fixed threats to those creatively cultivated crops, however Lynn is diligent of their care.
Except for creating whimsical and fantastic shapes along with her topiary, Lynn can be intentional with the shapes and types of flowers within the backyard. With this variety she is ready to create actually thrilling scenes, even when lots of the colours are comparable.
Whereas pink and purple are the predominant colours within the panorama, blooms in different hues are utilized to supply distinction and act as accents. In comparison with the cooler tones of lots of the crops in Lynn’s backyard, these vivid yellow bearded irises completely glow.
Thanks a lot for sharing your attractive backyard and unbelievable topiary creations with us once more, Lynn! Your capacity to combine slightly whimsy with a complicated plant palette ends in a splendidly distinctive and galvanizing design.
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