Regina’s Wildlife-Friendly Garden in Connecticut

Finding ways to make a backyard garden work

My name is Regina Melo , and I am a Brazilian American who has been living in Connecticut for the last 25 old age . I started garden about 16 years ago when we sell our condominium in Bethel and buy a theatre in New Milford . It was a unexampled construction , and my husband and I had a whole raw blank sail to tackle — the thou . you’re able to see more of my garden on my Instagram as@gigi_a_melo .

My husband has focused on growing an edible garden . In the first year he built only one layer ; later he sum up two more .

I wanted to produce a backyard with some fruit trees and a mixing of shade and sunny bed flowers and draw plenty of wildlife . I soon learn I would have to change my plan . The septic system in the backyard is huge , and it would n’t be wise to plant trees and have lots of structures built on it , so it ’s a very sunny thousand . I make up one’s mind to make one big flower bed in the back , aside from the infected organisation , and flower beds on the sides of the planetary house . Thanks to the neighbor ’ Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , there is a small suspicious area in the back ( east side ) where I constitute some ferns , and in the summer I append some colorful annuals , especiallyimpatiens . I have sharpen on design and growing plant life . I include I made quite a few mistake : I wanted to see everything blooming and shining quickly , so I did n’t give some plants the proper spacing , I plant invasiveground book binding , and so on . Bottom blood , I did n’t have patience when I set out gardening , and soon enough it became too overwhelming to manage for , and throughout the age I started downsize .

Bumblebee visitingpurple coneflowers(Echinacea purpurea , Zones 3–8 )

An orange hybrid coneflower ( Echinaceahybrid , Zones 4–8 )

Black - eyed Susans around a birdhouse ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 3–10 )

A lily - flowered tulip ( perhaps the mixture ‘ Ballerina ’ , Zones 3–8 )

Cheery violas ( Viola× wittrockiana , cool season yearly )

A rich dark red rose ( perhaps the miscellany ‘ Europeana ’ , Zones 5–10 )

A tiny tree diagram toad hanging out in a melt rose peak .

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