Blue house with white trim, a hundred and fifty years old (dating back to 1870)
looks crisp and fresh. Professionally designed, the various garden areas offer
spaces for birds and butterflies, also places for people to relax and socialize.
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Designed for Nature Garden Tour
Saturday, 15 June 2024
Designed for Nature: Garden of Christopher and Helen Round
Saturday, 15 June 2024
Blue house with white trim, a hundred and fifty years old (dating back to 1870)
looks crisp and fresh. Professionally designed, the various garden areas offer
spaces for birds and butterflies, also places for people to relax and socialize.
Lattice at the base of the deck is backdrop for sensitive fern, Onoclea sensibilis
Sensitive, as it collapses with autumn's first frost. Until then it spreads with new
rather tropical looks, growing fresh fronds all summer long. An excellent native fern.
The coach house seamlessly matches the architectural look of the house.
An inviting porch swing bed at the back of the property borrows the adjacent brick wall
for a backdrop, while a canvas awning shades the seating area on a sunny summer day.
Another simple bench with an arbor fits attractively into the gardenscape.
A frog poses, with an upside-down cover to hold the fountain's water, with
dark ligularia and native geranium just past bloom to anchor it to its space.
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Sweet bay magnolia, Magnolia virginiana, is nearing the end of its flowering season.
A few last flowers on this semi-evergreen native tree welcomes us as we stroll past.
Plants are skillfully combined, looking more attractive together than they might individually.
Here, some alliums gone over from flowering to setting seed pair interestingly with lavender.
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Hosta are a classic for shade. On the left, paired with Japanese painted fern, Athyrium nipponicum 'Pictum'.
On the right, with Canadian ginger, Asarum canadense, a bolder, softer leaf than the European species.
These options make a pleasant display in the shady, linear planting bed that
edges a brick walk along the house, framed by a simple soft gray privacy fence.
Continuing out to the street past an allée. Or since there is only one line
of trees perhaps it is just a half allée, nonetheless giving sculptural grace.
Having circumnavigated the garden from front to back and along both sides -
now Onward! to the next Designed for Nature garden on today's tour.
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