Lilli’s New Garden in Indiana

Filling a new space with flowers

We ’re visiting with Lilli Hazard today in southerly Indiana .

This pastMaywe go to a little bungalow nestled in the hills of theHoosier National Forest(Zone 6a ) . Our home is surround by immense native tree and is build into a side where the private road is higher than the house . The anterior owner / detergent builder landscape with arock gardenleading to the north - facing front door to mitigate wearing . When we strike here it had several bush , ferns , hostas , and decorative grasses , but very few blossom . I adore flowers , and it ’s been my end to comprise more into my landscape painting . I started by bringing primroses(Primulahybrids , Zones 3–8 ) , golden alexander(Ziziaaurea , Zones 3–8 ) , ‘ Jacob Cline ’ bee balm(Mondarda didyma‘Jacob Cline ’ , Zones 4–9 ) , and my cherish pottedroses(mostly David Austin ’s ) from my last home . I have supplemented with some additional indigen , let in giant rubeckia(Rudbeckiamaxima , Zones 5–9 ) , Tennessee coneflower(Echinaceatennesseensis , Zones 5–9 ) , regal prairie clover(Daleapurpurea , Zones 3–8 ) , and prairie pot flower(Geumtriflorum , Zones 3–7 ) . Nonnatives I contribute are beautiful daylilies(Hemerocallishybrids , Zones 4–9 ) purchased from a local daylily baby’s room and Japanese forest grass(Hakonechloamacra , Zones 5–9 ) that still necessitate to be establish among the rock . It ’s a piece of work in progress , but I ’m enjoying the new challenge of rock-and-roll horticulture ( digging hollow among rocks can be an athletic skill ) and add more aboriginal and foreign-born blossom .

As an aside , I have been letting sure areas of our chiliad go wild to see what native flowers are there . I have many beautiful ones that are suitable of their own entry . And I ’ve been enjoying all the butterfly and dragonflies they ’ve attract .

A gorgeous rose blooming in a pot

This daylily is over the top , with unbelievable fringed edges to the flower petal .

Hosta blooming in the new garden

Perennials and a brilliant orange zinnia ( Zinniaelegans , yearly ) bring color to this pot .

This giant rudbeckia is starting to live up to its name . When mature , it will have a mass of huge , silvern leaves and tall steeple of chicken flowers .

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