Gardening in Pennsylvania

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Today Bob and Linda Vivian are sharing their Pennsylvania garden with us .

There ’s plenty of garden here to keep Linda and me busy . We do n’t heed it at all . It ’s a British Labour Party of love . I think it maintain us young even in our “ gilded ” years . It gets us up each morning .

A morning ’s coffee pause before heading out to the garden beyond . That little triangle at the “ Y ” of the paths is the internet site of my new Japanese - style garden , completed last fall . painting of that garden will shortly watch over .

This isPaeonia‘Morning Lilac ’ ( Zones 3–9 ) , one of the Itoh hybrid peonies . Itohs give you the mantrap of herbaceous peonies and the unassailable stems and blooming size of tree diagram peonies . Just thin them to the ground in fall and they ’ll be back late next May .

This is the coolest stain in the garden , even on a spicy August afternoon . Would that I could have more time to pause here .

Thishostais electric automobile even after sunset . It made me cringe to dig it up anddivideit , but it is doing fine in its new positioning .

Here is a inadequate transition between the front entering manner of walking and the repeated garden in back . Itoh peonies androses , not yet in bloom , repose there .

This is the picture that made me first realize , years ago , that I in reality had a garden . Along with the boxwoods(Buxus , Zones 5–9 ) , there is my very favourite Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on the immediate right , the bang tree(Chionanathus virginicus , Zones 3–9 ) . To the back is a kousa dogwood(Cornuskousa , Zones 5–8 ) , and a variegatedViburnumto the left .

The front walk was days in the fashioning . The step rock were a major labor . The plantings on either side are a jungle .

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