Sandy’s garden in Connecticut

Today ’s photograph are from Sandy Motyka in Connecticut . Sandy is one of the sweetest women I sleep with , and she ’s a copywriter for the Taunton Press , the company that publishesFine Gardening . Sandy ’s been telling me about her garden for years , and she ’s a buff of the GPOD , so I finally convert her to play in some photos to share ! She says,“For yr we own several acres of land behind our first habitation in Newtown . In the late nineties we decided to build on a part of that land we had enjoyed walking through with dogs and kinfolk . It was important to us to preserve the innate beauty of the body politic and not wrick it into a typical suburban lawn - centered landscape painting . This is just a coup d’oeil of what we have done on five acre . These exposure concentre on the ornamental garden behind the business firm . It ’s really pit - line giant bloom jackpot that were backfilled with compost and topsoil . Everything is grouped for impingement and simplicity of care . It ’s the most formal of the planting . All else is gear to transition into the natural landscape painting with hardwoods , including beeches , lots of aboriginal ferns , and rugged stone outcroppings . “Gorgeous , Sandy ! I ca n’t conceive you waitress so long to show me photos….now you require to show us MORE !

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Ornamental Garden: Stone walls replaced original railroad tie structures, with a grass path and stone stairs. Present garden with boxwood now a hedge and perennials.

Same garden in full summer, after white lilacs have bloomed

close up with butterfly

this garden when newly planted about 8 years ago

same garden as above when new with annuals and some perennials

stone stairs replaced railroad ties

The side yard plantings are designed to blend the beautiful natural landscape replete with native hardwoods and natural ferns, and to minimize lawn wherever possible. This is the side yard with a rustic patio – the little maple has since left us : (

side yard keeping natural stone outcropping and native ferns to blend with stone wall with hydrangeas. White ‘Ice Follies’ daffodils and old-fashioned narcissus fill the area under the hydrangeas in spring

front yard

Entry to fern garden. This area was rubble from the house building and lots of stone, probably from the backside of the glacier, and some natural ferns. It was a mess, but every year we plant some more ferns to fill in.