Blissful Monday GPODers!
I hope you all loved Christine’s takeover final week, she shared some beautiful pictures of her backyard and the gardens she has seen in her travels, however I’m joyful to be again and showcasing some extra unimaginable reader gardens! We’re getting proper again into it right this moment, with a have a look at Rebecca Downie’s backyard in central Connecticut for the very first time. Rebecca shared some pictures of her earlier backyard again in 2017 (take a look at that submission right here: The Component of Shock), and he or she’s lastly again share a small slice of her new house.
Hello gardening associates,
Only a fast GPOD submission right here. Moreover June, early autumn gardens are my favourite. I’m in central Connecticut. The distinction of the crisp blue sky and the grass-loving cool nights is so inviting, and a few of my annuals and perennials look their greatest this season till frost. Lots of different issues have passed by now. I’m trimming these issues again and holding on so long as potential to the remainder.
These are a few of my favorites this season, pictures taken in mid-October.
Blissful Gardening!Rebecca Downie
Fall mixture of gazania and purple fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’, Zone 9–10 or as an annual).
I exchange the pinks and purples in my flower pots (like petunias and geraniums) with zinnias of varied colours, and mums. The zinnias carry the pots into November.
My Pinky Winky hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata ‘DVP PINKY’, Zone 3–9) blooms have turned absolutely pink within the background. I nonetheless have some coleus in there too from the summer season mixture.
I’m an enormous fan of hyssop, and the Royal Raspberry (Agastache ‘Royal Raspberry’, Zone 5–9) selection within the background flowered your entire summer season since June and remains to be flowering now in November. However on this photograph it’s second to the white and pink gauras, each which self-seeded from crops final yr, however they grew fairly giant and are wonderful now!
Sort of an eclectic mixture of flowers, however for late October, they’re trying fairly good nonetheless. Zinnias, two sorts of gomphrena, vinca, a white/gentle blue salvia within the entrance border, with the gaura behind it.
Thanks a lot for sharing your beautiful designs with us once more, Rebecca! Your earlier backyard was gorgeous, and it’s clear your making the identical magic occur in your new panorama. I hope we get handled to extra pictures of your new backyard sooner or later.
The gardening season has slowed down or come to a whole halt for a lot of gardeners this time of yr, however GPOD will hold offering doses of backyard shade each week. This implies we’d like much more beneficiant contributors, like Rebecca, to share their pictures and assist proceed this plant pleasure. You probably have pictures that you simply want to share, we’d like to characteristic your backyard or the gardens you could have visited on the weblog. Observe the instructions beneath to submit pictures by way of e mail, or ship me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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