Gardening in Central New York

By: Kim Charles

Marge Hebblethwaite and her married man Chris have overcome the challenges of corpse soil and shade , creating a garden with unique foliage as the focal point in time .

" My husband and I garden in Zone 5B in central New York , where the wintertime are long , but the growing season is deserving wait for . We ’ve been dwell in our domicile for 20 years and have learned a muckle about what works and what does n’t in our amended clay territory . I ’m a works geek and love playing with interesting foliage both in the garden and in the many container I pot up every twelvemonth .

Our back shade garden is very challenging because we have support water there in winter and spring , and a large Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that sucks up the moisture in the summer . This twelvemonth we lost one of the bombastic bush along the fence ( and are drop off our Viburnum as well ) so we filled in the daub with this pot pigeonholing featuring a Red Abyssinian Banana plant . "

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We calculate onwards to come across more beautiful gardens as we round out the summertime season ! Happy Gardening ! Kim

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