Harriet’s Former Swimming Pool Turned Garden

A garden through the seasons

Today we ’re visiting with Harriet Robinson :

“ It has been a few years since I submitted anything to GPOD . My pool garden ( a filled in swim pocket billiards ) has beenfeatured before . It is one of several region I garden in Maine . Not in these photos are the veggie layer , Siberian and bearded iris collections , a long border I call the fencing garden , a small shade garden , a small wayside garden , the front base planting and some bush sections . All this keeps me out of doors for hours every Clarence Day . It is the backyard with the pond garden that gets most of my tending and this is what I am feature in these pic fill throughout the 2023 time of year . It was a very thought-provoking summer with interminable pelting , weeds that would n’t discontinue germinating and a honest contribution of louse pestilence liking the wet conditions and succulent growth . ”

The garden begins with snowmelt in mid April . The early medulla ( Crocus , Zones 3 – 8 , andIris reticulata , Zones 4 – 8 , in this surface area ) are more gratifying close up but here ’s an overview .

Sudden warmth ended the early bulbs quickly this year but pushed the daffodils ( Narcissushybrids , Zones 3 – 9 ) along in early May . Then it turned cool and they lasted a farsighted time . Narcissus pseudonarcissus mark my first crown flower .

The second peak bloom feature film peonies ( Paeoniahybrids , Zones 3 – 8) and Siberian irises ( Irissibericahybrids , Zones 3 – 8) the third calendar week of June .

Carnivorous plant in June . They spring up in pots set in trays filled with rain .

A month later the daylily ( Hemerocallishybrids , Zones 4 – 9 ) peak changes the color palette from wild-eyed pinko , blues and Patrick White to red-hot brilliant colour . Clumps of bright yellowHeliopsis(Zones 3 – 9 ) are long lasting companions to the daylilies .

affair slow up down a month afterwards in August butAllium‘Millenium ’ ( zone 4 – 8),Verbenabonariensis(Zones 7 – 10 , or as one-year ) and a few later daylily keep the show going . I grow the vulgar genus Echinacea ( Echinacea purpurea , Zones 3 – 8) for a long period of time of bloom . Hylotelephium(formerlySedum , Zones 3 – 9 ) like ‘ Matrona ’ and ‘ Frosty Morn ’ bloom in August followed by ‘ Autumn Joy ’ in September . This is one name change I jibe with since the unsloped ones behave quite other than from the sedum ground cover and butt plants I enjoy throughout the garden .

Long - blooming flowers from late August keep flower in September . The hotshot for September are the section of a hardy chrysanthemum , likely ‘ Clara Curtis ’ ( Chrysanthemum‘Clara Curtis ’ , geographical zone 4 – 9 ) . One of those planting shows here contrast nicely with a pot ofPetuniaexerta(annual ) that flower all summertime long .

October isAstermonth . The first , raging pink Alma Potske ( Symphyotrichumnovae – angliae‘Alma Potschke ’ , geographical zone 3 – 9 ) starts things off in September and the last , Raydon ’s Favorite ( Symphyotrichum oblongifolium‘Raydon ’s Favorite ’ , Zones 3 – 8) was still blooming in November . you’re able to also see ‘ Mrs. T.S. Wright ’ and ‘ Bluebird ’ in thise photo . Colchicum(Zones 5 – 9 ) also make an appearing in the dip , next to the track . It is deserving putting up with its foliage in the spring , just as the lycoris ( Lycorissquamigera , Zones 5 – 9 ) foliage ( one of the clump is in the August photo ) also produce and ripens to make a momentary but hoped-for visual aspect as a naked dame .

Late October bring another sturdy chrysanthemum , ‘ Apricot ’ . Calamint ( CalaminthanepetaZone 5 – 7 ) beleaguer by the Dendranthema grandifloruom is n’t the showiest but the pollinators sure find out it and savor it . We had a very belated hoarfrost this year observable from the orange annual emilia ( Emiliacoccinea ) decorating a bearded flag bed across from ‘ Raydon ’s Choice ’ . By November the garden had some blooms but the overall garden was no longer photogenic as I prepare for wintertime snow .

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