Again in June, good friend of the GPOD Cherry Ong attended the Vancouver Hardy Plant Research Weekend and was form sufficient to share images of a number of the gardens that she toured. In the present day she’s taking us alongside to go to Gwen and Paul’s attractive backyard and nursery.
Blue poppies (Meconopsis betonicifolia, Zones 5–7) are solely growable in climates with very cool, delicate summers—like Vancouver, the place they thrive.
There are numerous kinds and colours of annual poppies (Papaver somniferum, annual), however these brightly coloured ones are simply marvelous. And naturally the seedheads that come subsequent are lovely as nicely.
This shady path is proof you don’t want an enormous space, solar, and even many flowers to make a stupendous backyard. An exquisite tapestry of foliage, with a daring, white-variegated hosta (Hosta hybrid, Zones 3–8) catches the attention.
Some peonies are grown extra for his or her seedpods than their flowers. This is without doubt one of the woodland peonies (in all probability Paeonia japonica, Zones 5–8), which grows nicely in shade and has beautiful white flowers within the spring adopted by these dramatic seedpods that cut up open to point out their brilliant crimson inside.
Foxtail lilies (Eremurus hybrids, Zones 5–8) produce these unimaginable spires of flowers in early summer time. They’re not onerous to develop, however they have an inclination to rot in heavy, moist soils, so give them good drainage to maintain them completely satisfied.
I really like this artistic fencing, which visually divides the backyard whereas nonetheless letting you see by way of to the vegetation on the opposite aspect. It seems to be to be constructed from outdated window frames and different discovered/upcycled supplies.
California poppies (Eschscholzia californica, annual) often are available in a brilliant shade of orange, however these softer, extra pastel tones are great additionally.
A rock backyard slopes as much as a spot to sit down and take within the view.
I really like how the wealthy vegetation fills in round this pond, making it seem like such a pure and seamless a part of the panorama.
I feel these spikes of intensely coloured flowers are the blooms of a Dactylorhiza orchid.
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