Good day! I’m Rob Chambon. I’ve been gardening for the reason that fall after my dad handed in 2001. My first place to backyard was at Pine Bluffs, a closely wooded space on a lake. That is the place I realized what labored and didn’t work in shady areas. Over a interval of 12 years, I constructed and put in a woodland backyard I name the Secret Backyard. It had 9 seating areas, a full hammock space, a swing, 65 tons of rocked mountaineering trails, and 1000’s of native and nonnative uncommon and weird perennials, shrubs, timber, and bulbs. These had been my “proving grounds,” so to talk, for my present dwelling, the place I proceed to work on landscaping to this present day.
In October 2017, I moved to my present residence in Bicknell, Indiana, 4 miles from Pine Bluffs. It was a completely clean slate, with solely two daylilies and one clematis there once I moved in. There have been no current borders or planting beds of any form. Clean slates are my favourite, so I shortly set to work planting a handful of perennials and shrubs that fall earlier than winter set in. Since that preliminary begin, I’ve vastly expanded my panorama to cowl the three metropolis tons that I personal. I’ve nearly every part from solar to shade, a novel and numerous mixture of perennials, shrubs, timber, and bulbs that enables one thing of curiosity in all 12 months of the yr.
I actually take pleasure in placing my inventive juices to work in arising with mixtures that work effectively within the backyard and complement every plant in that exact grouping to the fullest. All gardeners love blooms, after all, however I consider that it’s a plant’s foliage that carries the backyard via nearly all of the yr. With that focus in thoughts, I attempt to provide you with completely different mixtures of plant colours, kinds, and textures that create curiosity and wonder that’s each eye-catching and distinctive.
Podophyllum ‘Pink Panda’ (Zones 5–9), Syneilesis aconitifolia (Zones 4–8), Phlox divaricata (Zones 3–8), Rodgersia podophylla ‘Tien Tsin Pink’ (Zones 5–8), cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Zones 4–9), and Epimedium ‘Sulphureum’ (Zones 5–9)
Fothergilla (Zones 4–8) shrub, Spirea ‘Double Play Large Bang’ (Zones 3–9), ‘Orange Rocket’ barberry shrub (Berberis thunbergii ‘Orange Rocket’, Zones 4–8), and creeping phlox (Phlox subulata, Zones 3–9) in white and purple
Sieboldii primrose (Primula sieboldii, Zones 5–9) cultivars, Trillium sulcatum (Zones 4–7), Phlox divaricata (Zones 3–8) and Arum italicum ‘White Winter’ (Zones 5–9)
Weigela ‘Sonic Bloom’ in pink and white (Zones 5–9), Siberian iris cvs. (Iris hybrids, Zones 4–8), and Coral Knock Out roses.
Amber Jubilee ninebark shrub (Physocarpus opulifolius, Zones 2–8) with ‘Alpenglow’ hardy geranium (Geranium sanguineum ‘Alpenglow’, Zones 4–8)
Coral Knock Out roses (Rosa ‘Radral’, Zones 5–11) with ‘Walker’s Low’ catmint (Nepeta racemosa ‘Walker’s Low’, Zones 4–8)
Trillium viridescens (Zones 5–9) with Phlox divaricata
Azalea poukhanense (Rhododendron yedoense var. poukhanense, Zones 4–9), Phlox divaricata, ‘Girard’s Rose’ azalea (Rhododendron ‘Girard’s Rose’, Zones 5–8), ‘Takukeyama’ Japanese maple (Acer palmatum ‘Takukeyama’, Zones 5–9), golden creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’, Zones 3–9), and Alice oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia, Zones 5–11)
Primula japonica ‘Miller’s Crimson’ and hybrid seedling (Zones 4–8), Heuchera, Phlox divaricata, and ‘Othello’ ligularia (Ligularia dentata ‘Othello’, Zones 3–8)
‘Caradonna’ salvia (Salvia ‘Caradonna’, Zones 4–8), ‘Walker’s Low’ catmint, Coral Knock Out rose
I name the aspect lot at my dwelling “House Place Gardens.”
