A front yard gets a water-wise makeover, a neon hydrangea has a really good year, and compost becomes art
Happy Friday GPODers !
We ’re doing something a picayune different today , I ’m part a young series I ’m calling “ GPOD Vignettes ” . We often get submissions that are a little too short for a sales booth alone mail , three photograph or less . But I know gathering photo and write up description is very clip intensive , so I wanted a way to share these shorter submission without requiring extra work on your goal . I decided I could compile a few of these shorter submissions we take in over the course of some week and make one post have a collection of gardens and plants .
If you ’ve ever desire to defer to GPOD in the yesteryear and have been overwhelm with the lift , or afraid you do n’t have enough to share , this is your time to send something in ! Even if it ’s just one photo of a plant doing peculiarly well this year ( you ’ll see an deterrent example of that below ) , mail it in with a quick note about you , where you garden , and the plant in the photograph .
Hopefully I ’ll get to see more of your gardens , and we ’ll all be able to savour more works picture along the way . So , without further ado , here are some vignettes from the preceding few weeks :
1: Catherine and John Campbell’s Succulent Front Yard
Hello Fine Gardening Team ! ! Here are a few movie of my front yard personal paradise . Last twelvemonth we tore out the lawn and jasmine that the old owners had installed and replaced it with a mix of waterwise flora and succulents , along with a few shade tree from our local Shade Tree Program . This class I ’m contrive on put in a California native garden to impart to the beauty and hopefully draw in even more hummingbird and butterfly . I am so thankful for the peace and calm this space has given me .
Who needs a lawn when you have rock ‘n’ roll ! Lawns require a plenty of maintenance no matter your fix , but in a live , dry climate like Southern California , lawns are often a losing battle . While there are many different kinds of lawn alternatives , I find this rock’n’roll garden especially heart - catching ! The various sizes , chassis , and colour bring far more interestingness than a ocean of immature grass .
And this rock garden reserve Catherine and John to produce these incredible plants ! The stunner in the front seem to be a mangave — potentially ‘ Macho Mocha ’ ( ×Mangave‘Macho Mocha ’ , Zones 7–9)—and the colorful ‘ Jester ’ New Zealand flax ( Phormium‘Jester ’ , zone 8–11 ) directly behind is show cease .
A real scream of color ! shrub , succulent and even some tickweed flowers make a waterwise landscape that is n’t sacrifice any involvement .
Thanks so much for share-out , Catherine ! Please partake an update when you instal your California native garden .
2: A Special Shrub Blooming in Atlanta
From my backyard , quarter - Akka , mostly woodland nuance garden .
Atlanta , GA Virginia - Highland neighborhood .
The hydrangea ‘ Lemon Zest’(Hydrangea macrophylla‘Lemon Zest ’ , Zones 4–7)was from a cutting at a previous belongings . It has been go twice in this yard . Has rarely bloom but this localization seems to have worked its illusion .
see at those blooms ! ! While ‘ Lemon Zest ’ has foliage that pack a burnished punch , there is no refuse that the bubblegum pink blooms take it to another level . mate it with ‘ Illustris ’ elephant ’s pinna ( Colocasiaesculenta‘Illustris ’ , Zones 8–11 ) and a dark , shiny hosta made it a sketch I just had to share .
secret submitter , please deal more info and photo from your garden soon ! !
3: Patrick Costello Turns Compost into Art
In keeping with Fine Gardening and GPOD I have another fabulous plant life / artwork story to partake with you . My friend , Patrick Costello , design and retrace an telling Compost Cake atStone Quarry Art Park , Cazenovia , N.Y.
It is amazing . Indigo dyed gunny tube fill with elephant dung , straw and wood chip circumvent an armature of hay . institute with aboriginal gage and flush the cake is strike in the landscape painting . To learn more about the piece , here is a link to Patrick ’s description of his constitutional work : patrickjcostello.net / and - eat - it - too
— Elizabeth Schoonmaker(Check out the first incrediblegarden story she partake with us here . )
Every gardener cognize that planting is an fine art form in and of itself , but there is something peculiarly charming that happens when the “ traditional ” art world collides with plants . Whether that come from garden graphics , industrial plant paintings , or an unbelievable dingy bar made of compost and grass !
When that fine art is in a setting as arresting as this art park , it is that much more charming . If you ’re in the Syracuse area , or find yourself hand through , you should perfectly make a point to visit this incredible space full of nature and artistic production .
And give thanks you for sharing another incredible story with us , Elizabeth ! You ’re quickly becoming our GPOD conservator 😉
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