Harriet’s Maine Garden in 2024

A succession of blooms and garden beauty from April to the first snowfalls of December in this New England garden

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January is starting off with a great selection of gardens through the seasons ! We enjoyed olympian scenes from Sue yesterday , and today we ’re getting a striking 2024 highlight reel from Harriet Robinson in Otisfield , Maine . Harriet has shared her garden with us so many times in the past ( Harriet ’s Former Swimming Pool Turned Garden , horticulture for Pollinators Without sacrifice Beauty , Harriet ’s Iris Garden , etc . ) as well as photos from outside her garden that observe her erotic love of wild flower ( Wildflower Celebration , Beautiful Grecian Wildflowers ) . Today we get to see how her garden look over the course of the last class , with fabulous photos from each calendar month ( April – December ) .

I have shared picture of my Maine garden with GPOD off and on for years . I have a large rural thou in the westerly foothills with many garden area . The core garden is the fill up in swimming pool . These photos were take from a similar vantage stop to give an idea of the time of year ’s changes in 2024 . I seemed to have abate off in August because I had no picture so I step in in a pic from 2023 . As I save this in early December , my garden is under a mantle of Baron Snow of Leicester and it is hard to consider that it was tall and coloured just a small while ago . In the last few years I have specially worked on late season colour bring to my aster collection . I am always commute out daylilies for longer summer bloom of youth with in high spirits bud tally while retaining favorite old cultivar because I favor the classical shape . My barbate iris diaphragm are in different beds than this episode of photos but some of the siberian cultivars are blooming in the photos because they make skilful garden companions .

( Callicarpabodinieri‘Profusion ’ , Zones 5–8 )

April : As soon as the snow melts , the colour begins with thumping ofcrocusesand reticulate iris(Iris reticulata , geographical zone 5–9).white stonecrop(Sedum record album , Zones 3–8)groundcover around the edges is a red vividness in the dusty weather condition .

May is daffodil month with early and mid season bloomers . I line the paths with them . As clumps get too big , I take them out to plant in the field ( see in space under the aged orchard apple tree tree ) and try another cultivar in the pocket billiards garden . I like to see the reddened stem of paeony as they emerge combining well with the daffodils .

June brings iris and peonies in a flowered extravaganza . I have many namedSiberian(Iris sibirica , Zones 3–9)and barbate iris(I. germanica , Zones 3–10)in various garden bed but the peony include many unidentified one I got from my parent ’ garden .

In July the colors change from romanticistic pinks and whites to hot yellow , crimson and orange color as day lily take over . The daylilies are name cultivar which bloom for weeks with early midseason and by and by blooming variety . There are also clumps of long lasting false sunflower(Heliopsis helianthoides , Zones 3–9).Peonies locate in with adorable shrublike green leaf .

August : ( pic from 2023 since I forget to take any in 2024 ) Foreground : Millenium ornamental onion(Allium‘Millenium ’ , Zones 5–8),Matrona sedum(Hylotelephium telephium‘Matrona ’ , Zones 3–9)and Darjeeling persicaria(Persicariaaffinis‘Darjeeling Red ’ , zone 3–9).Pinkish heyday in midground : Purple coneflower(Echinacea purpurea , Zones 3–9),resurrection lily(Lycoris squamigera , Zones 5–9)(thetall verbena[Verbena bonariensis , Zones 7–10]flower planted in foreground is near the lycoris clump ) , and Morden Pink loosestrife(Lythrumsalicaria‘Morden Pink ’ , Zones 4–9 ) .

September : By the goal of the month some peony leaf was coloring up , colchicumswere blooming , and the asters had started with the red-hot pinkish Alma Pötschke(Symphyotrichum novae - angliae‘Andenken an Alma Pötschke ’ , Zones 4–8)first . The last of the pot agapanthus blooms still attracted bee .

October in New England means colorful wild deciduous trees in the environs echoed by peony leafage in the garden . The aster ingathering is animated with bees getting ready for wintertime .

December : the borrow view predominates but the settled snow shows the faint synopsis of the walk around the pool .

Thank you so much for sharing your incredible garden with us again , Harriet ! It ’s absolutely amazing the long season of interest you ’re able to create , even when winter tend to get so early in Maine .

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