Alice Says Goodbye to a Special Garden: Part 1

A final tribute to a labor of love in Ontario we’ve had the pleasure of seeing evolve

Happy Monday GPODers !

First , I want to say a huge thank you for all the form word I got from Friday ’s post . The GPOD community continues to vaunt me away with your forgivingness and support , something so rare on the Internet these days . I require that we now wrench and carry our support to a frequent contributor who is suppose goodbye to her garden after 20 class .

If you ’ve been follow Garden Photo of the Day , you ’ve seen Alice Fleurkens ’ gardens in Sweaburg , Ontario . If you require a refresher , here are just a small sampling of Alice ’s submissions : Spring in Alice ’s Ontario Garden , Summer in Ontario , September in Alice ’s Garden , Good Friends Make a Great Garden , andAlice ’s Front Garden in Canada . There is so much to take note from Alice ’s space , from her mythical front beds and cornerstone plantings to her attention - catch tulips that have become a basic of spring on this blog . Alice is moving on from these garden and I ’m certain she will create beauty with plants wherever she become , but I can only conceive of how difficult it is to say good-by to this gorgeous labor of love .

To all my fellow gardeners . We are betray the business firm that we have lived in for 20 years , so this is sayonara to our much love garden . It has been a parturiency of sexual love and the neck of the woods has give us a destiny of compliments on these gardens .

Persicaria , I trust I spelled that right(you did ! ) , is such a grand plant life . There is lavender , which the right way now is blossom again because I garnish it down after flowering the first prison term , same with the spirea , which is in reality just as squeamish for the leaves as the flowers .

Just a few marigold and a mommy that I bought in a pot and imbed after blossoming . I cut off the bushed flush and water well after planting and it lived . A champion gave me theJapanese blood line grass(Imperata cylindrica , Zones 5–9 ) , it is only a class old so still quite small .

Annual blue Salvia , is one of my favourite bloom . They do n’t do much in the summer but in the declination are so overnice .

Here are some more mums I embed . The tall drained looking thing is a clematis , the dusty miller(Jacobaeamaritimasyn . Senecio cineraria , Zones 7–10 or as an annual)is there from last year . I leave them and they look so pretty the second twelvemonth . If they outlive another year they may get fairly yellow efflorescence , but I wo n’t be living here to see it .

The striped cannas(Canna indica‘Phasion’,Zones 7–11)seem to be a routine less susceptible to Asian mallet damage . These did not get real full-grown but got beautiful orange efflorescence and I like them .

I had to re - do a gravid part of this garden because the septic tankful was underneath it and there was a draw of dig to get to the lids , so it is not in it ’s full glory yet . Now we have risers so the dig is no longer required .

So these plants are not quite mature but they are getting there . In the back primer is a bird bath I cobble together from unlike glass items I like . I love the colour of the heuchera(maybeMarmalade heuchera[Heuchera‘Marmalade ’ , Zones 4–9 ] ? ) , that a friend gave me .

A garden mum from Costco . I wo n’t be set it this class , maybe one of my friend will plant it .

The garden around the new septic riser . The small gage beside the blue fescue(Festuca glauca , Zones 4–11)are small bunny fountain grass(Pennisetumalopecuroides‘Little Bunny’,Zones 4–9 ) , I peculiarly have sex those , and I was give a bit friendly neighbour down the street , and have rive this many times so they are all quite small-scale , but they are so pretty when mature .

The front entranceway to our house I will omit that prospect so much .

Thankfully , we ’ll be back with Alice tomorrow to see more of her gardens and get one last feeling at her lovely space as she says adios .

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