Posy Gang

I suppose two years is a long enough break from posting on Instagram!

Voici my newest garden, planted fall 2023. “Wild, with vines climbing up and trailing down,” was the brief. “Got it,” I said. Helenium and Calamintha nepeta celebrating out front (missing Liatris spicata which were rabbit food this year); Clematis virginiana making a bride out of the bike shed; Magnolia virginiana, Aesclepia incarnata (swamp milkweed), and heuchera under the front window, loving the extra water from two downspouts and the sump pump outlet; the part shade backyard basking in midday sun; the back from another angle, with Virginia creeper trained up the fence, and a tangle of clematis and Asarina scandens (climbing snapdragon) trailing down the stairwell; clematis, wandering away. I’m waiting anxiously for three Celastrus scandens (American bittersweet) to start climbing the fences back here - but I know once they do, they’ll be unstoppable.

Monthly check-ins for this garden. Low-maintenance but not no-maintenance, and never finished. I’ll never be able to scale what I do, but boy do I love it!

Fresh squeezed 🍓🍑🍉🥕💦