Elsie
Senior Member
Smile, pretend we're happy the flowers have moved in and trapped us here.
Share pics from yours, a friend’s or a public garden you enjoyed visiting
- Thread starter MarkD
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Dave03
Senior Member
- Location
- Dunder Mifflin, Scranton Branch
This is my wife's little patch on the patio.
Trust me, it's like this all the way around the house.
Trust me, it's like this all the way around the house.
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Oh you've got it bad, alright.
Do you you restrict yourself to buying plants for holes you want to fill? That is a good first step. There are probably groups too.
I try hard to limit myself. I visited a special garden with a good nursery yesterday and limited myself to one 5 gallon plant from down under that @Kadee may know though it comes from the tropical region, Eucalyptus macrocarpa. It can look bright white to bluish depending on the light and have humongous flowers as the name suggests. My photo from a public garden:
Of course mine will need to do some growing to reach 8' tall by 12' wide, here is my little five gallon darling.
But I had to have one other little 2 inch potted cactus with very nice flowers.
And then a friend who had germinated more of this little beauty from Chatham Island, New Zealand offered me a few along with a couple other nice plants. Not sure why so many more knowledgeable and are so generous with me but I do appreciate it. It has glossy blue flowers but the foliage alone makes it worth it.
Myosotidium hortensia | Chatham Island forget-me-not Herbaceous Perennial/RHS
The other plants might be ones @Kadee knows too,
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/leptospermum-scoparium
Brachychiton discolor - Wikipedia
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OneEyedDiva
SF VIP
- Location
- New Jersey
This year...hydrangeas in this spot. Our gardening committee changes the selections each year.
RadishRose
SF VIP
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Hartford Connecticut
The Helen S Kaman Rose Garden is the center of Elizabeth Park. It is the first municipal rose garden in the United States and the third largest rose garden in the country today. Theodore Wirth began the design of the Rose Garden in September of 1903, and it opened in June, 1904. The Rose Garden began with about 190 varieties of roses; this eventually grew to almost 1,000 by the 1950s.
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MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Hartford Connecticut
The Helen S Kaman Rose Garden is the center of Elizabeth Park. It is the first municipal rose garden in the United States and the third largest rose garden in the country today. Theodore Wirth began the design of the Rose Garden in September of 1903, and it opened in June, 1904. The Rose Garden began with about 190 varieties of roses; this eventually grew to almost 1,000 by the 1950s.
In 1897, Theodore Wirth, the first park superintendent, and the Board of Park Commissioners contracted with the Lord & Burnham Company of New York to build two greenhouses.
Amazing!
MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
That's what I call inviting! A sunken garden?
On my one trip to the UK I loved the sunken garden at Great Dixter.
Their's has a pond in the center.
