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Revisiting a collector’s garden

Yesterday we visit Chad and Seyra ’s garden in Woodbury , Connecticut , and today we ’re back to see more of their beautiful plants .

Like a lot of other gardeners , we love the birds who come to our garden . Over the years , we have increasingly considered their needs when pick out new plants . But choosing coneflower was a happy chance event . We loveEchinaceapurpurea(Zones 3–8 ) because it is easy to grow , seeds itself around , blooms for months , comes in one of my favorite gloss ( pink ) , and just so fall out to be pop with thebirds and insects . It ’s a total win - win ! I like to mix them with other pinkish plants that have dissimilar cast , likePennisetumorientale‘Karley Rose ’ ( Zones 5–8 ) , andSanguisorba hakusanensis ‘ Lilac Squirrel ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) .

Here ’s one of those birds now . The Spinus tristis are just one of the many species who adore this works !

The pond andcontainersallow us to grow various water supply plants like lotus and water lilies . This miniature water lily , Nymphaea‘Helvola ’ ( zone 4–10 ) is perfectly relative to the little froglet emerging from the little container that served as his nursery . Venture forth into the wide world , dauntless little one !

We also collectBrugmansia(Zones 8–10 ) because who could resist a Brug ! We backpack our basement to the roof with these behemoths every fall , knowing it ’ll be whole worth it in the summer to have this !

This isBrugmansia‘Charles Grimaldi . ’ There ’s something about lying on the Gunter Grass underneath and gazing up into the fragrant trumpets that can erase your worries . These Brugs need lots of water andfertilizerand hardy supports to stay happy and upright in their heap . Our yard is very windy , and these top - cloggy pots often get knock over unless we brace them with pieces of rebar . In this photo we are using a repurposed rebar plant life livelihood . Monty Don taught us that you could buy your own rebar and bow it to make your own sturdy reinforcement . We bend it around the torso of trees to shape them .

Every year we interest about the wildfires out west where our loved single live . The dope even roam all the path out to Connecticut , sometimes making it hard to see the hills in the distance . But the smoke has a way of intensifying our sunsets like nothing else I ’ve seen . These beautiful sundown are so bittersweet .

In this photo , Rudbeckiafulgida(Zones 3–9 ) andEchinopsbannaticus‘Blue Glow ’ ( Zones 4–9 ) are backed by an vivid sunset .

I could never say which season is my favorite , but fall has a special position in my heart . It ’s as if fall is the garden ’s grand finale thank us for our grueling work and dictation leave-taking until spring . We purposefully plant forfall colors . The aboriginal New England flora give us a psyche start with that . And we endeavor to recall those color in the garden .

We dig up our entire previous garden and brought it with us when we relocated . That first summer , we madly planted thing anywhere we could shoehorn them in to help the plants make it through their first wintertime . This photo shows that even in those other disorderly planting , the plant found a means to find the right spouse and shine anyway . I ’m go to take that as validation of my theory that the more coolheaded plants you garner , the eminent chance that the plants will as if by magic assemble themselves into a beautiful report requiring no effort on the part of the gardener .

I am a huge fan ofPatrinia scabiosifolia(Zones 5–8 ) . It grows well from seed , develop marvelous pane - xanthous umbels beloved by pollinators , and has foliage that turn subtlety of red in the fall . What a workhorse of a plant ! I ’ll never be without it again . Behind it isRudbeckiatriloba(Zones 4–8 ) . We rely heavy onself - seed plantslike these to fill in our empty spaces . We love the generousness of these plants . They give so much and ask nothing in return .

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