Another Visit to Mel’s Rustic Cabin Garden

Celebrating the beauty of fall

We ’re return to Mel ’s gorgeous New York State garden today .

I sent in a GPOD ingress in March 2022 : Mel ’s Rustic Cabin Garden . This submission focused on thesummer garden , and I determine it would be fun to share some more photos of my garden during my favorite clock time of the year — autumn . All of these exposure are fromSeptemberandOctoberof 2021 and 2022 .

The garden was started in 2003 and has evolved continually since then and will stay to do so . I think that older gardens are very thought-provoking , as shrubs and tree diagram can just outgrow their place or go bad . A few year back we lost tons ofjunipers and arborvitaein the Northeast , and I lose three huge Retama raetam along the path to the front step and had to hurriedly repair the damage before anOpen Days Gardentour . Sometimes , wedge modification has some surprising and wonderful answer . turn a loss the junipers opened up the purview from the steps , and I added a littlerock gardenwith a ‘ Wolf eye ’ kousa dogwood(Cornuskousa‘Wolf eye ’ , Zones 5–8),Abies koreana‘Ice Breaker ’ ( zona 5–7 ) , andAraliacordata‘Sun King ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) , among other things ( image 5 ) .

I love thefall garden ! There is so much color added with the leafage both in the garden and the take up view , the weed slow up down , and some brown and drying out looks right !

From the porch with the red maples(Acerrubrum , Zones 3–9 ) blazing in the scope you could see the ‘ Bobo ’ hydrangea(Hydrangeapaniculata‘Bobo ’ , Zones 3–8 ) and ‘ Bloodgood ’ maple(Acer palmatum‘Bloodgood ’ , Zones 5–9 ) intelligibly . Aclimbing hydrangea(Hydrangea anomala , Zones 4–8 ) is in the foreground , and the porcupine grass(Miscanthussinensis‘Strictus ’ , Zones 5–9 ) is a standout at this time of the yr .

Down the course from the parking court to the step through the conifer shade garden — which is dominated by a largeJuniperuschinensis‘Hetzii Columnaris ’ ( zona 4–9)—there is aPiceaabies‘Gold Drift ’ ( Zones 2–7 ) next to the fencing in front of the showy ‘ Bobo ’ hydrangea .

This photo was take on September 13 and looks down the central path in the garden , with the ‘ Bobo ’ hydrangea in the front and my belovedHeucheravillosa‘Autumn Bride ’ ( Zones 3–8 ) , the newish ‘ Lemony Lace ’ elderberry(Sambucusnigra‘Lemony Lace ’ , Zones 5–7 ) , and the tenacious black-market - eyed Susans(Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 3–8 ) leaning out into the path . The somewhat unusualSpodiopogon sibiricus(Zones 5–9 ) in the middle left of the photo is one of my front-runner ; it had been there for a decennary and die back to almost nothing in the winter of 2021 with no rhyme or grounds . The gangly tree in the back is a staghorn sumac(Rhustyphina , Zones 3–8 ) that offer in 2007 and that I have nurtured and prune ever since . I love it , and so do the birds , which I can ascertain from my upstairs bedroom window .

confront the theater through the ‘ Lemony Lace ’ , once again there is the show - off ‘ Bobo ’ , as well as a ‘ Pink Diamond ’ Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - formhydrangea(Hydrangea paniculata‘Pink Diamond ) next to the steps and aPieris‘Brouwers ’s Beauty ’ ( Zones 5–8 ) next to it . I make out ‘ Brouwers ’s Beauty ’ but collapse up on them in my designing because they seldom do well . The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on the left wing is a variegate Norway maple(Acerplatanoides , zone 3–7 ) that I rationalise to keep it at a reasonable size of it .

On my porch is anAbutilon(Zones 8–11 or as an yearly or a houseplant ) in acontainer . Another red maple is render off in the length .

Down the liltinggravel pathparallel to the porch , my prizePiceapungens‘Procumbens ’ ( zone 2–8 ) on the leftfield was maimed by the deer a few long time ago . That surprised me because they “ are n’t supposed ” to eat on blue spruce .

This picture is packed with color , including thekousa dogwood(Cornus kousa , Zones 5–8 ) yield , Persicariaamplexicaulis‘Firetail ’ ( Zones 4–9 ) blooms , Physostegiavirginiana(Zones 3–9 ) blooms , the Harry Lauders take the air stick(Corylusavellana‘Red Dragon ’ , zone 4–8 ) foliage , efflorescence of the maiden grass(Miscanthussinensis , Zones 4–9 ) , and the vary boxwood(Buxussp . , Zones 5–9 ) .

This photo , taken on September 2 , is also hole - packed : Imperatacylindric(notinvasivein my Zone 4/5 garden),Ligulariadentata(Zones 3–8 ) , a variegate sweet-flavored flag(Acoruscalamus‘Variegatus ’ , Zones 4–10 ) that is actually in the slight pool , the ‘ Lemony Lace ’ , a ‘ niggling Devil ’ ninebark(Physocarpusopulifolius‘Little Devil ’ , Zones 2–8 ) , with the ‘ Wine and Roses ’ weigela(Weigela‘Wine and Roses ’ , Zones 4–8 ) right behind .

I love portulaca(Portulaca grandiflora , Zones 2–11 ) and how it shines in this close - up with the ‘ Autumn Bride ’ coral bells , ‘ Blue Carpet ’ juniper(Juniperus squamata‘Blue Carpet ’ , Zones 4–7 ) , Bowles ’ golden sedge(Carexelata‘Aurea ’ , Zones 5–9 ) in thepond , the pickerel weed(Pontederia cordata , Zones 3–10 ) , etc .

This photo shows off the first light igniter and what a simple fence and gravel way can do to set off avignette . I enjoy the flowers of thePersicariaaplexicaulis‘Firetail ’ , obedient plant(Physostegiavirginiana),and my preferred raw mountain mint(Pycnanthemum pilosum , Zones 4–8 ) .

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