Part 1: A Garden in the Rainforest

By Kim Charles

Lorraine Robson from Canada focuses on richness of flowers in her rainforest garden .

" I hold up in the rainforest at the radical of Mt. Seymour in North Vancouver , BC , Canada . We are in Zone 7 although this past winter was much cold and snowier — and longer ! — than common . I establish a bungalow - style garden 16 years ago with many ego - seeders and broadcaster because I like that full look with good deal of flowers . To keep a horse sense of cohesion , I try on to trammel myself to shades of pinkish , aristocratical , violet , and white with gobs of William Green and the acid yellowness of Lady ’s Mantle to keep it from being too saccharine odoriferous . It ’s a good thing that I am happy with a wild , fairly convoluted looking at because we have frequent wildlife visitant ( raccoons , squirrels , skunks , and episodic black bear ) who do not respect the edge . The racoon family unit use the fence big top as their main road through the neck of the woods and my trellises as their ladders into the garden which is a bit severely on the clematises rise on them . All the same , I do be intimate to see these animate being and the many razzing who live in the marvellous trees surrounding our garden . When it all gets too out of hand , I " go on a violent disorder " to remove the excesses and give the remainders elbow room to breathe . "

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David Austin Rose ‘Abraham Darby’ with cedar tree behind.

Aquilegia (Double Columbine). This is probably ‘Nora Barlow’ though these frilly girls are rather promiscuous, so it may be a hybrid.

Clematis — not yet destroyed by the raccoons.

Alchemilla mollis (Lady’s Mantle), Astrantia major (Masterwort), and Digitalis (Foxgloves) with Darmera peltata (Umbrella Plant) in the background. The birdbath froze and cracked this winter, so I’ll need to repair or repurpose it.

Clematis ‘Nelly Moser’.

Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’ (Chocolate boneset), Sanguinaria canadensis (double bloodroot), and Helleborus, Athyrium filix-femina (lady fern)

Thalictrum (Meadow rue), peonies, foxgloves, Clematis ‘Nelly Moser’, Myrrhis odorata (Sweet Cicely), Rosa ‘Geoff Hamilton’, and buttercup: the bane of my existence. If only it weren’t yellow, I might love it!