Harriet’s Fence Garden

One garden bed through the seasons

We visited Harriet Johnson ’s Maine gardenlast hebdomad , but just focused on what she ’d planted in a space that had previously been an in ground pool . She mentioned to me that she had other garden spaces too , so I asked if she ’d let us call in those as well … happily she harmonize , and today we ’re get a tour of the space she calls her fencing garden :

These photos of the fencing garden were take in 2021 through 2023 . Some things I did n’t rephotograph this yr and other things looked better late eld . While the puddle garden with filling ( sandy loam ) did well this retiring rainy summertime , the fence garden in my native Henry Clay loam dirt was not as well-chosen and I lost some of the yarrow I have produce without problem for 30 years . This borderline is about 40 ’ long and face to the south . Because of its sizing I am capable to grow some marvelous North American native plants that blossom in late summer . I also can contrive with color repetition because this garden can be viewed as a single element unlike the submerging experience in the pool garden . The fence enclose the back thou including the pool garden , raised vegetable and iris bottom , and a minor louche surface area . The fencing is important to the design of the area providing a westerly bounds to the fields beyond and the upstage hills and mount .

Color depart in the fencing garden with tulips ( Tulipahybrids , Zone 3 – 8) and daffodils ( Narcissushybrids , Zone 3 – 8) in mid May for a yellow and red compounding . An quondam forsythia ( Forsythiaxintermedia , Zone 5 – 8) matches the yellow daffodil . The exposure was taken from the pool garden , a slightly higher area located on leveled ground .

In late May or early June the lilac ( Syringaspecies and loanblend , Zone 3 – 8) peak behind the fence , a hedging of six olderSyringavulgariscultivars ( only three are exhibit in the exposure ) . Another island bed elsewhere admit three species of lilacs for other , middle and former bloom . I deadhead the fence lilacs after bloom so that they will not detract from the border ’s flowers as the time of year progresses .

The June peak blossom as seen from near the top of the border . The larch ( Larixsp . , Zone 2 – 7 ) was in the beginning plant as un upper telephone extension to the garden and since then the Warburton iris solicitation has been plant above it increase the duration to all the functional space before the logic gate . The rhythm method in the long picture is provided by yellow yarrow ‘ Moonshine ’ ( Achillea‘Moonshine ’ , Zone 3 – 8) , mostly strange peony cultivars , andStachysbyzantina(Lamb ’s ears , Zone 4 – 8) .

Still the June peak flush , looking in close-fitting at the bottom corner . Here a bluish veronica ( Veronicasp.and cvs . Zones 4–8)contrasts with peony ‘ Mighty Mo ’ ( Paeonia‘Mighty Mo ’ , Zones 3 – 8) . yellow-bellied yarrow ‘ Moonshine ’ contrasts with purpleSalvia‘May Night ’ ( Zones 4 – 9 ) . I do not have a go at it the name of the clear pinkish paeony .

In late June or other July the move up bloom on the fence . I think it is American Pilar rose ; it was given to me as a layering with the name ‘ pilar rise ’ . The purple clump isCampanulaglomerata(Zone 3 – 8) . It is gorgeous but I had to reduce it drastically since this photo was taken because it wants to take over the whole garden . It is a challenge when it diffuse into other perennial . On the rightfulness near the fence is Siberian catmint ( Nepetasibirica , Zone 3 – 8) .

From another slant ( and another year ) this early July conniption showsNepatasibirica(Siberian catmint ) on the left , Achillea‘Moonshine ’ ( chickenhearted yarrow ) on either side ofHylotelephium‘Frosty Morn ’ ( Zones 3 – 9 , formerly called sedum ) , and an unknownErigeronto the right . The catmint will bloom through most if not all of July and August . subsequently in July this border makes less of a statement while the nearby pool garden bursts with color .

The most interesting plant life in the fence garden in mid July isVeronicastrumvirginicum‘Fascination ’ ( Culver ’s root , Zone 3 – 8) . It is a pollinator magnet as is the world thistle nearby in the garden ’s bottom quoin ( not in pictorial matter ) .

In the midsection of August other native plant begin their campaign let in Joe Pye weed ( Eupatoriumdubium‘Little Joe ’ , Zones 3 – 9 ) , the pink prime behind the white phlox ( Phloxpaniculata , Zone 5 – 9 ) to the right of the exposure . Above the Joe Pye weed the dark purpleClematis‘Jackmanii ’ ( Zone 4 – 8) is cease its season of flowers . To the far right wing the structure of the ‘ Fascination ’ flowers stay on as it go to seed . The straight species of culver ’s root is clean , flower a little later than the cultivar , and is visible in front of the tall yellow blossom behind the fencing , an old fashioned efflorescence called Golden Glow ( Rudbeckialanciniata‘Golden Glow ’ , Zone 3 – 9 ) . Besides the clumps of phlox , some ‘ David ’ and some ‘ Fuji ’ , Siberian catmint and ‘ Frosty Morn ’ keep on to make their bearing know . The modest yearly marigolds are growing in the front while Sedum ‘ Ruby Glow ’ is the low plant in the front center .

In former September the garden peaks again . The grandiloquent purple flower isVernonianoveboracensis(ironweed , Zone 5 – 9 ) flanked by Joe Pye weed . To the right is a pink intrepid chrysanthemum , likelyChrysanthemum‘Clara Curtis ’ ( Zone 5 – 7 ) .

October is aster calendar month . New England aster ‘ Purple Dome ’ ( Symphytotrichumnovae – angliae , Zone 4 – 8) was just starting in the previous video and is now in full bloom . Three clump of ‘ Wood ’s Blue ’ aster provide rhythm . Joe Pye weed has turn maroon as it goes to seed . The last of the white phlox exuviate their petals . The lamb ’s ears have been deadheaded . The pollinator they support are now enjoying the asters .

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