Yvonne’s New Garden in Virginia

A new space through the seasons

Today we ’re visiting with Yvonne Tsikata .

My older garden was previously featured inGPOD . In 2017 , we incite from that house to a new one . While sad to leave my old garden , I was excited at tripling my garden space and receiving the opportunity to start a new garden from scratch . Retiring a couple of years ago gave me even more clock time to garden . I had spent a lot of meter remember about what I liked from many visits to garden in the UK , Ireland , and France . I realized that I really wish a little bit of everything : formalness and symmetry , timberland shadowiness gardens , meadows , and Japanese gardens ! So the garden has lot of “ rooms , ” with a different flavour in each one . It ’s still a work in progress and will be five years sure-enough in March . After doing some of the hardscaping in the old house , I make professional help with the stonework and walkways in this one , as it was beyond my capabilities . This solidifying of pictures shows some early summer and winter vista to counterpoint three of the “ subgardens . ” I fuck structure and rock and have used lots of evergreens . Roses are a Brobdingnagian cacoethes . In the growing time of year , I spend a minimum of four hours in the garden every day . It ’s truly my well-chosen blank space .

The new garden in the other days — unfeignedly a white slating

formalities in the rose garden : Buxus‘Green Velvet ’ and ‘ Green Mountain ’ ( Zones 5–8 ) , climbing roses ( ‘ Eden ’ on leave and ‘ Zepherine Drouhin ’ on right ) , sort David Austin roses ( ‘ Geoff Hamilton ’ , ‘ Darcy Bussell ’ , ‘ Princess Alexandra of Kent ’ , ‘ Charlotte ’ , and ‘ Golden Celebration’),Nepeta‘Cat ’s Pajamas ’ ( Zones 3–8 ) and phenomenal lavender(Lavandula‘Phenomenal ’ , Zones 5–9 ) under the fountain .

A wider view of the formal rosaceous garden

The roseate garden do in ashen for the wintertime

The green - and - white garden : Hydrangea arborescens‘Annabelle ’ ( Zones 3–9 ) andSalix integra‘Hakuro - Nishiki’(Zones 5–8 ) standards , underplanted withHakonechloamacra‘Aureola ’ ( Zones 5–9),Mazus reptans‘Alba ’ ( Zones 5–9),Dicentra spectablis‘Alba ’ ( geographical zone 2–8),Agapanthus africanus‘Alba ’ ( Zones 7–10),Hosta‘June ’ ( Zones 3–9 ) and‘Mount Hood ’ daffodils(Narcissus‘Mount Hood ’ , Zones 3–8 ) andGalanthuselwesii(Zones 4–7 ) in the spring .

In wintertime , it becomes the snowy - and - blanched garden .

Japanese - inspired garden : Hollywood juniper(Juniperuschinensis‘Torulosa ’ , Zones 5–9),Spirea‘Candy Corn ’ ( zone 4–8),Acer‘Orangeola ’ and ‘ Red Dragon ’ ( Zones 5–9),Hakonechloa‘Aureola ’ ( Zones 5–9),Nandina(Zones 6–9 ) , and enigma Funka ( gifts ) .

And the Japanese - inspired garden in winter

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