Here’s a snippet of life in Paradise!
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Many plants thrive when cooler temperatures arrive. Interesting and beautiful things were happening in the gardens all the way until frost and after, as the monkshood and montauk daisies seemed to be unaffected by freezing temperatures. Much of the Fall has been
Streambed garden with phlox, clethra and cleome
Our last Blue Chiffon Rose of Sharon bloom
The path to Paradise Cottage with sedum, cleome, impatiens,and anenome in bloom
Morning glory on the trellis. Just a few blossoms opened for us; this is the truest blue flower in our garden
Anenome shapes
Anenome and bumble bee
In this photo are clethra, cleome, persicaria, impatiens, lamium,fern and rhubarb
The lobelia was new this Fall; still in search of blue blooms.
Monkshood, montauk daisies, cimicifuga on November 1 in the Studio garden. By now the firewood is covered to keep it dry.
The fall gardens along the path to Paradise Cottage were sumptuous! Anenome, phlox, clethra, sedum, impatiens
marvelous for us too; it has been long and mild – with no bugs into the evening.
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A garden would not be “normal” without a lot of redoing. Much digging up and replanting went on in the Studio garden all summer, yet there were plenty of highlights — and more to be done!
In search of the elusive blue flower, but this Blue Satin Rose of Sharon is more purple than blue.
Nicely fragrant lilies added another dimension to the impact of the echinacea
This is no ordinary orange daylily, combined here with Southern Charm mullen
Early harbingers of Fall: crocosmia Lucifer and goldenrod
Pale yellow, such a delicate color! Daylilies and sweet fern.
Our oasis of calm in early August