The Garden Next Door

On the same day I photographed "Spring Garden" (posted about a week ago) I also photographed the garden next door where I also take care of a few things.  The entire area is wedge shaped and only about twenty-five feet long by ten feet at the wide end.  This small and intimate space hosts a variety of dwarf  and miniature shrubs and a variety of perennials.  I suppose one could see it as a westernized Zen Garden.

Above:  Miniature lilacs...only about two feet high but they have the same heart-shaped leaves and enchanting fragrance as the old common lilacs that everyone has enjoyed.

Day lilies, a Nanking Cherry, ferns and a huge hosta unfurling in the foreground.

A close-up of an early-flowering clematis vine.  Every spring I think this plant is dead but it has proved me wrong for several years in a row now.  Even when the flowers are spent the leaves are lush until a hard frost in the fall.

Two small cast-concrete mushrooms with a branch of pink-flowered bleeding heart in the upper right with a surround of hosta, fern and ladies mantle. The narrow walkway covered in grey crushed-stone is only about fifteen inches in width.

A patch of periwinkle with some spearmint.

More hosta, ladies mantle, ferns and day lilies with a bronze-leaved rodgersia.

One more shot of a miniature lilac.

A close-up of a flowering Dwarf Korean Lilac near the front door.  These bloom just after the common lilacs and the intoxicating fragrance emanates at least a few hundred feet from the plant.  Definitely a spring favourite...can't have too many lilacs. 

 

Photographed on May 31, 2019.