Making a New Garden in Connecticut

Transforming a blank slate

I ’m Sue Webel . I ’ve been aFine Gardeningfan since the mid-90s and a GPOD follower for many years , but this is my first exposure entry . ( Find me on Instagram as@musabasjoosue . )

In 2016 I packed up hundreds of plant , a agglomerate of garden paraphernalia , and three cats , sold my home and garden of 20 eld , and moved 25 miles northwest to my current home in North Canton , Connecticut . I traded a matured garden on a quarter - acre suburban lot for a blank slate on 2 acres in a rural neighbourhood .

In the spring of 2017 I hit the ground running . My first ordering of business in the Modern garden was to have a terrace install to better connect the house with the someday - to - be back garden .

Here ’s how the back of the house looked in the winter of 2016 - 2017 .

And here ’s how it looked in August 2019.I’m a self - instruct nurseryman and plant collector . When contrive my gardens , I believe foliage color , grain , and shape first , and I take a assorted garden approach . My gardens incorporate trees , shrubs , perennials , tropical industrial plant , andannuals . I enjoy designingcontainer gardensusing strange annuals .

A container on the stump of one of the loom Tree take from the backyard features an acalypha(Acalyphawilkesiana , Zones 10–11 or as an annual ) that I winter indoors .

This terrace container featuresColocasia‘Maui Gold ’ ( Zones 8–11 or as annual ) .

Garden along a course from the terrace

The buyers of my former menage did not want the spring that had been the garden focal point in time on the patio , so we had to move it here . I ’m so glad we did ! It ’s once again a patiofocal decimal point .

In late 2019 we had the front walk replaced . I had to reconstruct the grade along the whole walk and integrate the existing gardens . It took about 12 yards of topsoil to fill up and grade . Most of the plant in the existing garden had to be move , and the whole area had to be redesign . I spent most of April and May work out here . Naturally there will be tweaks , but I ’m passably felicitous with the first pass .

One of my two cats is enjoying one of the back garden . I use stone excavated from the property toedgeall the gardens . I called my sure-enough garden Idyll Haven . The Modern garden has been aptly identify Idyll Haven on the Rocks .

One of my back borders features a sourwood tree(Oxydendron arboreum , Zones 5–9 ) and anAralia‘Silver Umbrella ’ ( Zones 4–8 ) . When I go here , this area was wooded .

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