Joyful Friday, GPODers!
We’ve reached the top of our digital version of the 2025 Secret Backyard Tour in Ponte Vedra Seashore, Florida. What a deal with is has been to go to these various gardens and expertise landscapes from a area we would definitely like to see extra from! It is usually inspiring to see how 5 totally different gardeners create designs given very comparable rising situations. Regardless of all being cultivated in the identical neighborhood, every backyard has its personal character and distinctive choice of vegetation. Should you missed any of the gardens featured this week, undoubtedly circle again to test these out: Teresa’s Serene House, Anne’s Plentiful Kitchen Backyard, Allison’s Cacti Courtyard, and Johanna’s Mediterranean Masterpiece. Should you’re all updated, scroll on to see Karen Hunt’s lush and vibrant panorama impressed by English backyard design.
Karen Hunt’s love of English gardens is mirrored in her alternative of flowers. Her entrance yard options carpet roses, trellises with mandevillas and pink roses, agapanthus, blue daze (Evolvulus glomeratus, Zones 8–11), and Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia, Zones 4–9). Her again patio is ideal for entertaining, with star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides, Zones 8–10) espaliered in opposition to the wall on a diamond trellis, planters of rose topiary, mandevilla trellises, and eugenia topiaries.
A cottage backyard, signature to the customarily cloudy English local weather, is a difficult design to translate to the a lot harsher situations on the Florida coast. Nevertheless, Karen manages to execute this romantic model with the assistance of those beautiful white containers that add plenty of alternative for floral coloration on her pool patio.
Topiaries, like these three globes of eugenia, add to the whimsy of the backyard, and Karen makes use of each inch of planting house in these pots to imitate the dense look of English gardens whereas creating extra pockets of vivid coloration.
Coaching some vegetation into small bushes, relatively than the shrubs they may naturally type, additionally permits for far more planting house. This small container is a mini English backyard of its personal, with layers of flowers bursting from each nook.
A straightforward approach to get an English backyard really feel in any local weather is by including some vining or climbing vegetation. It doesn’t matter what plant you select (so long as it isn’t invasive or troublesome), you’ll immediately soften harsh edges and create a extra romantic, whimsical vibe. Bonus factors for those who practice them into a stunning espalier like Karen did with this star jasmine.
And it’s probably not an English backyard till you’ve added some roses. These Flower Carpet® white roses (Rosa × ‘Noaschnee’, Zones 5–10) give the sensation of an old school selection, however with the illness resistance of recent introductions. An ideal choose for the new, humid local weather of Florida.
I completely adore that Karen doesn’t draw back from an ample use of pink! I feel the colour completely shines in actually sunny areas, and there’s a lot pink crossover in basic English backyard vegetation and tropical bloomers. This hearty mass of pink snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus, Zones 7–10 or as an annual) has beautiful flowers and foliage.
Thanks a lot once more to Anne Eshelman and the entire gardeners featured on this tour for creating a wonderful backyard occasion and sharing it with the GPOD neighborhood! It has been a pleasure to discover every backyard’s designs and get a style of what gardening is like in your nook of the world.
We shall be again to our common schedule subsequent week, so hold a watch out in your backyard on the weblog when you’ve got submitted pictures not too long ago. Should you nonetheless haven’t shared your backyard with GPOD, it’s by no means too late to contribute some pictures to get your designs featured. Comply with the instructions beneath to submit pictures through e mail, or ship me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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