August Garden in Norwell, Massachusetts

Later summer blooms and foliage

Today we ’re visiting with Barbara Cain .

My garden is on the South Shore of Boston . The pic were all take in in my backyard , which is enclosed with a fence to create a courtyard . My husband and I have breakfast and lunch on the deck . I try on to have interesting flora growing all year .

A big container with a largeEnseteventricosum(Zones 9–11 ) anchors this planting . This tumid plant life is a closer relation of banana and can be overwinter indoors in mood where it gets too frigid .

A school of fish bring color and a picayune sport to this part of the garden .

I love climbing hydrangea(Hydrangea petiolaris , Zones 4–8 ) and have used it both on my pergola and as aground coverover a Harlan Fiske Stone wall . The climb hydrangea on my arbor is quite sometime and is taking over the structure . Every year I plan to snip it back after it blooms but never seem to get to it ! Maybe this class . . .

A braggart spate full of bloomingScaevola(annual ) . Native to Australia , this works makes a great show all summer and is display nicely in a commode all by itself .

Even without flowers , diverse foliage on perennials make a slap-up display .

Here ’s a high - demarcation combining of a dark - leavedHeuchera(Zones 4–9 ) and vary Nipponese timberland grass ( Hakonechloamacra‘Aureola ’ , Zones 5–9 ) .

A pick ofsucculents , both unfearing and not , in homemade hypertufa pots . Hypertufa is a lightweight imitation Harlan Stone that can be easily made at abode . ( We ’ve receive full instructions here . )

shrub , perennials , and annuals all work flowers to this corner of the garden , under a huge specimen of cutleaf sumac ( Rhustyphina‘Tiger Eyes ’ , Zones 4–8 ) .

The flower of downcast rage flush ( Passifloracaerulea , Zones 5–9 ) reckon like they should be from the tropical zone , though this vine is actually native to eastern North America and is incredibly patient of of cold winter once give .

look out from under the climbing hydrangea - coveredarborout into the garden .

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