Gardens are not mere combinations of plants, pavements and furniture. True gardens are thoughtfully crafted spaces that reflect the people, places and history that inhabit, pass through and surround it. They respond to challenges with grace, understated elegance and ingenuity. They endure with resiliency, relevancy and hope. Come and experience this small home and garden and learn how its design and construction turned into a love affair between the owner and the place.
Plant List:
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' (Foerster's feather reed grass)
Deschampsia cespitosa 'Goldtau' (Golden Dew tufted hair grass)
Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln' (Dwarf fountain grass)
Amsonia x 'Blue Ice' (Blue Ice bluestar)
Aster 'Wood's Blue' (Wood's Blue New York aster)
Baptisia australis (Blue wild indigo)
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Plumbago)
Eupatorium dubium 'Little Joe' (syn. Eutrochium) (Little Joe Pye weed)
Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy' (Strawberry Candy daylily)
Iris sibirica 'Caesar's Brother' (Caesar's Brother Siberian iris)
Liatris spicata (Blazing star)
Pycnanthemum muticum (Clustered mountainmint)
Sedum spurium 'John Creech' (John Creech stonecrop)
Callicarpa dichotoma (Purple Beautyberry)
Cephalotaxus harrigntonia 'Duke Gardens' (Duke Gardens Japanese plum yew)
Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' (Hummingbird summersweet)
Ilex glabra 'Gem Box' (Gem Box Inkberry Holly)
Itea virginica 'Little Henry' ('Sprich') (Little Henry sweetspire)
Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Zeblid' (Scarletta) (Scarletta fetterbush)
Weigela florida 'Spilled Wine' (Spilled Wine weigela)