Appreciating Details and the Big Picture

Today we ’re visiting Domenia Barbuto ’s garden .

Thanks very much for the wonderful photos that gardeners have contributed . I look onward to seeing them every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and plan to incorporate some of the ideas I have see . I have been work in my in Westbury , New York , garden for over 40 old age . During this time I have enlighten away trees , created and recreated bloom beds , and experiment with a miscellanea of container planting . I always seemed to concentrate on the heavy picture — how plants complement each other , how the garden looked overall . During the preceding few years I have seek to apprise the small things that make up the overall issue of my planting by taking a closer look at single cast and variant of colors .

Detail of astilbe ( Astilbechinensis , Zones 4–8 ) in its full , subdued , pale - pink prime .

Bright , sunny black - eyed Susans ( Rudbeckiafulgia , Zones 3–9 ) contrast with the full-bodied blue flowers of a bigleaf hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla , Zones 6–9 ) behind them .

Detail of dead blueish bigleaf hydrangea flowers . call up that if you want dependable - down hydrangea , you call for acidic ground , as they will blush pink as the grunge becomes more alkaline .

And here ’s a conclusion - up of some richly saturate Asian lilies ( LiliumAsiatic grouping , Zones 4–9 ) . This group of lilies has the bright colour of the straight lily but does n’t boast the scent of some of the other types .

Seed head on Northern ocean oats ( Chasmanthium latifolium , Zones 3–8 ) , a beautiful ornamental grass that is native to a spacious swath of North America .

In this survey of the patio , brilliant colour is ply by one-year pot .

This mandrel is but dripping with a sweet autumn clematis ( Clematisterniflora , Zones 5–11 ) .

Each item-by-item flower of sweet autumn clematis is small , but because the flowers are farm in such tremendous numbers , they make an unbelievable display . The fragrancy is wondrous as well .

This angelical fall clematis is running along behind a big bottom of black-market - eyed Susans , making sure that the summer cease with an enormous multitude of peak .

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