And the winners of the November photo challenge are…

extolment to the following succeeder of the November Photo Challenge , Autumn Gardens :

Jennifer Jacksits , for her entrance , Morning Dew .

Kari Lonning , for her entry , Anemone .

Phillip Oliver , for his entry , Garden Wall .

Susie Egan , for her first appearance , descend at Cottage Lake Gardens in Woodinville , Washington .

We ask our success to say us about themselves , and here ’s what they had to say :

Jennifer Jacksits“I’ve always had a keen interest group in horticulture and after spend 30 days working in corporate America , I studied landscape design and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden .

Currently I am doing landscape design work for Pinecone Perennials , an independent garden center in New Bern , NC .

Zone 8 gardening has its challenge and reward – hot , humid summers , follow by long autumns and mild winters . Muhly grass ( Muhlenbergia capillaris ) , as captured in the exposure , is the essence of my fall garden . It match beautifully with Knock Out roses , which started blooming in April and are still in bloom mid - December . Another perennial which place on a terrific show in my downfall garden is Cuphea micropetala – it hold its own during the summer and then provides at least two months of yellow and orangish bloom begin in September .

My garden is always in flux – essay something newfangled or moving others to new locations . My favored gardens are ones that have strong implicit in complex body part to run them through fall and winter and a lushness that smutch and contrast with that structure in fountain and summer . ”

Kari Lonning“I’m a basketweaver by professing , gardener and photographer by passion . I ’ve been garden my funny property for 30 years . I love photograph color , design , garden , and my Old English Sheepdog , Emma .

For more information , go tohttp://www.karilonning.comandhttp://karilonning.blogspot.com . ”

Emma . Photo / Illustration : Kari Lonning

Anemone . Photo / Illustration : Kari Lonning

Phillip Oliver:“I’m a librarian and employment at a local university and when I ’m not working there , I ’m moderately much living and breathing gardening .

I survive in the northwesterly corner of Alabama and I became seriously interested in garden about 17 years ago when my partner and I moved into our present menage and we had a 3/4 Akko white slate to work with .

I ’m a big fan of old roses , camellias and hydrangeas and over the years , I ’ve become interested in a all-encompassing sort of plant .

I bask shoot the garden and I have a website and a blog ( www.phillipoliver.net ) .

Autumns here are normally very vivacious with colour and the fall garden feature lots of red maple , Japanese maples , oakleaf hydrangea , and various aboriginal plants that provide vivid color . ”

Susie Egan : Susie Egan is the owner of Cottage Lake Gardens , a landscape design business as well as a private garden and plant baby’s room , located in Woodinville , Washington .

Susie is a King County Master gardener advocating “ sustainable horticulture ” principle that utilizes the most environmental and pet - well-disposed horticulture practices and product . Her focus in late days has been the study and propagation of woodland shade plant specially theTrillium , an endangered wild flower . In the past couple of years she has traveled across the commonwealth to attend symposiums , wild flower pilgrim’s journey and meeting withTrilliumexperts .

Morning dew. Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Jacksits

Susie is a member of the Northwest Horticultural Society , the American Horticultural Society , the Arboretum Foundation , the Northwest Perennial Alliance , the Washington Native Plant Society , the Hardy Fern Foundation , and supports the Chase and Kruckeberg Botanic Gardens . She also lead off the Cottage Lake Garden Club and have got flora sale at her garden throughout the summer .

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Emma. Photo/Illustration: Kari Lonning

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Anemone. Photo/Illustration: Kari Lonning

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