A walk through the Sun Garden, past the Rock Garden and out to the Monet Garden
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View from the driveway of the Sun Garden |
4 years ago there was no garden on the left-hand side, nor any cherry tree.
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Yellow Heliopsis form a border around the whole are, not just this garden. |
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Blanket Flower, Poppy, Heliopsis, Sea Holly, Iris, Crocosmia, Liatris |
Soon purple Liatris will join the blooms to make the colour combo complete.
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Left, back to the driveway |
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Right, into the rock garden |
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Ostrich Plume Astilbe, year 2 |
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Irish moss, year 1 and doing well between paving stones |
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Stonecrop ground cover (bottom right) all native, simply grouped together for effect |
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Entrance to the Rock Garden from the Monet Garden |
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The curved back border reflects where this garden was lawn 4 years ago. |
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A hot mess with Forget-me-nots taking over. |
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An endless supply of daylilies means they are always used in my planters. |