Hello GPODers!
January is beginning off with an amazing choice of gardens via the seasons! We loved distinctive scenes from Sue yesterday, and as we speak we’re getting a spectacular 2024 spotlight reel from Harriet Robinson in Otisfield, Maine. Harriet has shared her backyard with us so many instances up to now (Harriet’s Former Swimming Pool Turned Backyard, Gardening for Pollinators With out Sacrificing Magnificence, Harriet’s Iris Backyard, and so on.) in addition to photographs from exterior her backyard that honor her love of wildflowers (Wildflower Celebration, Stunning Grecian Wildflowers). As we speak we get to see how her backyard appeared over the course of the final yr, with fabulous photographs from every month (April – December).
I’ve shared photographs of my Maine backyard with GPOD on and off for years. I’ve a big rural yard within the western foothills with many backyard areas. The core backyard is the stuffed in swimming pool. These photographs had been taken from an analogous vantage level to present an thought of the season’s modifications in 2024. I appeared to have slacked off in August as a result of I had no image so I substituted in a photograph from 2023. As I write this in early December, my backyard is underneath a blanket of snow and it’s arduous to consider that it was tall and colourful just a bit whereas in the past. In the previous few years I’ve particularly labored on late season colour including to my aster assortment. I’m all the time altering out daylilies for longer summer time bloom with increased bud counts whereas retaining favourite older cultivars as a result of I favor the basic types. My bearded iris are in several beds than this sequence of photographs however a number of the siberian cultivars are blooming within the photographs as a result of they make good backyard companions.
(Callicarpa bodinieri ‘Profusion’, Zones 5–8)
April: As quickly because the snow melts, the colour begins with clumps of crocuses and reticulated iris (Iris reticulata, Zones 5–9). white stonecrop (Sedum album, Zones 3–8) groundcover across the edges is a pink colour within the chilly climate.
Could is daffodil month with early and mid season bloomers. I line the paths with them. As clumps get too large, I take them out to plant within the area (see in distance underneath the aged apple tree) and take a look at one other cultivar within the pool backyard. I wish to see the pink stems of peonies as they emerge combining properly with the daffodils.
June brings iris and peonies in a floral extravaganza. I’ve many named Siberian (Iris sibirica, Zones 3–9) and bearded iris (I. germanica, Zones 3–10) in numerous backyard beds however the peonies embrace many unnamed ones I received from my mother and father’ backyard.
In July the colours change from romantic pinks and whites to scorching yellow, pink and orange colours as daylilies take over. The daylilies are named cultivars which bloom for weeks with early midseason and later blooming varieties. There are additionally clumps of lengthy lasting false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides, Zones 3–9). Peonies settle in with beautiful shrublike inexperienced foliage.
August: (Picture from 2023 since I forgot to take any in 2024) Foreground: Millenium decorative onion (Allium ‘Millenium’, Zones 5–8), Matrona sedum (Hylotelephium telephium ‘Matrona’, Zones 3–9) and Darjeeling persicaria (Persicaria affinis ‘Darjeeling Pink’, Zones 3–9). Pinkish flowers in midground: Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea, Zones 3–9), resurrection lily (Lycoris squamigera, Zones 5–9) (the tall verbena [Verbena bonariensis, Zones 7–10] flower planted in foreground is close to the lycoris clump), and Morden Pink loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria ‘Morden Pink’, Zones 4–9).
September: By the tip of the month some peony foliage was coloring up, colchicums had been blooming, and the asters had began with the recent pink Alma Pötschke (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae ‘Andenken an Alma Pötschke’, Zones 4–8) first. The final of the potted agapanthus blooms nonetheless attracted bees.
October in New England means colourful wild deciduous timber within the environment echoed by peony foliage within the backyard. The aster assortment is alive with bees preparing for winter.
December: the borrowed view predominates however the settled snow exhibits the faint define of the walkway across the pool.
Thanks a lot for sharing your unbelievable backyard with us once more, Harriet! It’s completely superb the lengthy season of curiosity you’re in a position to create, even when winter tends to reach so early in Maine.
Did you doc your backyard progress this yr like Harriet did? As I discussed in my New Yr’s Eve publish earlier this week, now’s the right time to replicate on final yr’s backyard and make plans for the following rising season (even when it feels eons away proper now). Whilst you’re doing that reflecting, take into consideration sending in your photographs to GPOD! Comply with the instructions beneath to submit your photographs by way of e mail, or ship me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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