Paula’s Ottawa Garden After a Wet Growing Season

Despite some turbulent summer weather, this front garden is still filled with fabulous flowers

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We ’re start the week off in a garden we ’ve seen a couple of time in the past times . Paula Brown gardens in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada and creates beds , borderline , container and lei that fill her front yard with flowers ( Check out her previous submissions : Paula ’s Ottawa GardenandPaula ’s Front Garden in Ottawa ) . Today we get to see how her garden treat a roily acquire season .

My garden is always a source of change , joyfulness , repose , study ( piles of oeuvre ) and discovery . It is my go - to place . This year was very wet , then very hot not to mention times of very coolheaded temperatures . It was not nigh as dry as it has been in previous horticulture long time , but there were still ironic periods which were probably require to dry the soaked earth . I love the rain though . The flowers like it or so they tell me. 😊 As you could see , I love a profusion of colour !

All of Paula ’s neighbors in Ottawa must adore her . Her front yard is an absolute joy of colors in so many shapes and form . From the beautiful hill of flowers to the spikes of grass that string your eye across the path , there is sempiternal eye confect to savour .

Paula ’s gardening skills are only matched by her incredible photography . She way she is able to enchant the intense coloration she make is dumfounding . This bright red rosiness leap out right off the screen .

So perfect it looks like a painting ! The frosty edge on her beds are a fantastic contrast to the pile of shameful - eyed Susans ( Rudbeckiahirta , Zones 3–8 ) , daisy , purple coneflowers(Echinaceapurpurea , Zones 3–9 ) , and hydrangea .

As much as Paula ’s neighbors must enjoy her flower - filled front yard , the local pollinator must treasure her planting that much more .

It would take me age to get to Paula ’s front threshold . There are so many flora filling every niche of this walkway , and all of this in a grow time of year with extreme weather variation . Seeing a complete view of this colorful distance is awe-inspiring , but I would get it on a deeper dive into all these beautiful works . If you could provide any plant id that would be so appreciated , Paula !

I can deduce that Paula has lots of stunning , classical garden beauties . brilliant pink zinnias will always please , attest by a monarch butterfly give up by to enjoy .

thick ruby hibiscus ( maybeHibiscusSummerific ® ‘ Cranberry Crush ’ or ‘ Blackberry Merlot ’ , Zones 4–9 ? ) , panicle hydrangea ( I thinkHydrangea paniculata‘SMHPLQF ’ , Zones 3–8 ) , and white-hot shasta daisy are a fabulous triad by the threshold .

Dahlia blooms are bed for their immense raiment of colors , but Paula seems to fetch out even more . In another picture this might look pretty in pinkish , white and yellow . Paula brings out the deep red and bright violet .

Paula ’s front garden beds are like wooden-headed blankets of blooms . She may not have a long ton of space , but Paula uses every in she has to squeeze in flowers of practically every color imaginable . Despite the sort and multifariousness , she ’s able to thread a beautiful , cohesive arras .

And one last garden classic , black eyed - Susan , captured so beautifully by Paula that you could even see the purplish chromaticity in its snapper .

Thank you for this bright , colorful start to this workweek , Paula ! Despite a thought-provoking growing season , you had an incredible video display of blooms .

Have photos to share ? We ’d love to see your garden , a finicky collection of flora you have intercourse , or a wonderful garden you had the chance to bring down !

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