Hello GPODers!
Social media is usually a controversial place. Anonymity can deliver out the worst in folks, and essentially the most polarizing factors of view can usually get unworthy consideration. Nevertheless, it will also be a phenomenal place that permits us to precise, share, and join. I discover that the latter is particularly true within the gardening nook of our on-line areas. Simply as gardeners are apt to welcome fellow plant-lovers into their landscapes, I discover they’re simply as beneficiant in giving out inspiration, recommendation, and perception to their followers. So I used to be thrilled to find out about an unbelievable gardening occasion from Sue Webel that permits gardeners who share on social media to attach in individual. Sue has shared her attractive backyard in Canton, Connecticut with the weblog a number of occasions (Try her earlier submissions: Distinctive Scenes From Sue’s 2024 Backyard, Sue’s Favourite Foliage Vegetation, Making a New Backyard in Connecticut, and Highlights from Sue’s 2021 Backyard), however right now she’s sharing highlights from her time on the 2025 Backyard Fling in Memphis, Tennessee.
And if you need to get impressed by extra of Sue’s attractive backyard images, you’ll want to take a look at her Instagram: @musabasjoosue
Photos are from The Backyard Fling which was held this 12 months in Memphis in June. I consider the hardiness zone is 8a. The Backyard Fling is an annual backyard communicators occasion open to anybody who has a public social media account dedicated to gardening. For extra data you may go to the web site or any of the related social media accounts. The vast majority of these images have been taken in non-public gardens. The 2026 Fling might be held in July in Buffalo, NY.
The Fling itinerary presents a mixture of private and non-private gardens with an occasional nursery tossed into the combination. This photograph was taken within the Memphis Botanic Backyard which was beautiful and properly value visiting if you end up in Memphis.
Annesdale Mansion, backyard and occasion venue, hosted the Fling banquet. It was lately bought by a brand new proprietor who’s renovating and increasing the gardens.
Expertise Memphis Gardens is a six week backyard occasion impressed by Backyard Stroll Buffalo and arranged by the native Cooper-Younger Backyard Membership. One in all our mornings was spent wandering out and in of gardens all situated in the identical neighborhood. I want I lived in a neighborhood like that! The following 4 photos are from this similar neighborhood.
A shady nook in one of many neighborhood gardens.
So lots of the neighborhood gardens had artistic entries.
At first I believed this concrete statue was an outdated tree trunk.
A big mass of elephant ears (Colocasia esculenta, Zones 8–11).
For the second half of our Expertise Memphis Backyard morning we have been bussed to some bigger particular person gardens. Sadly torrential rains dampened a few of these visits however not the spirits of the guests. The next two photos are from these gardens.
I took so many photos of crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica, Zones 7–9) trunks. They’re so widespread in Memphis. I gave up attempting to develop them in my northern Connecticut backyard at the same time as die again shrubs. My excessive elevation summer time season is simply quick sufficient and funky sufficient to stop them from blooming properly.
Like crepe myrtles, southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora, Zones 7–9) was in all places. Be nonetheless my heart-another magnificence I can’t develop.
Test again in with GPOD tomorrow so you don’t miss Half 2 of Sue’s garden-filled foray in Memphis.
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