A garden through the year
Today we ’re in Southbury , Connecticut , visiting with Elaine Esposito , and she begin the introduction to these photo with a quote from poet Stanley Horowitz :
“ wintertime is an engrave , spring a watercolor , summer an oil house painting , and autumn a mosaic of them all . ”
I hope you will delight the sample of photograph I once again took from my gardens and yard . I live in Connecticut , where I can savour the full peach ofall four season . How we all love our gardens , our flowers , our yards , nature , and the rainbow of out-of-door color that intertwine our lives . ravisher can be observe within every season , as nature attend as the backcloth , the canvas for our mind and joy .
Because of their love of nerveless temperature and cheery colors , queer ( Viola×wittrockiana , coolheaded - season annual ) are the prototype of spring .
As spring move along , thebleeding hearts(Lamprocapnosspectabilis , Zones 3–9 ) make out into bloom with their refined , dangling pink blossom .
What is leaping withoutpeonies ? This looks like the toppingly vigorous and beautifulPaeonia‘Coral Charm ’ ( Zones 3–8 ) .
As spring becomes summertime , the garden is luxuriant and unripened .
The stars of many a summertime garden are the daylilies ( Hemerocallishybrids , Zones 4–9 ) thanks to their abundant , colorful bloom and easygoing temperament .
Moving into evenfall it is clip for mommy ( Chrysanthemumhybrids , hardiness varies by cultivar ) . Though the potted cushion mums are often regale as short - term garden palm , many of them willoverwinterand come in back next class if plant early and given a little surplus security their first winter .
Celebrating the harvest season withpumpkinsand a four - legged gardening companion .
The arrival of snow signals a time of year of rest in the garden .
A thick layer of blow bring in a whole new sort of sweetheart to the garden and appropriate the nurseryman to imagine all the beauties that the next spring will bring .
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