Maples, Pitcher Plants, and More

Inspiring views at a Virginia public garden

I had a opportunity last week to chat the howling Lewis Ginter Botanic Garden in Richmond , Virginia . It is one of my favored public gardens , with beautiful plant and designs everywhere you seem . I always do away cheer !

This spectacular gate serves as the entrance to the Nipponese garden .

In the Nipponese garden , a perfect little piddle feature is surrounded by the most amazing , huge , mature Japanese maples ( Acer palmatum , Zones 5–9 ) . Spend a present moment here and you ’ll feel all your stress melt away .

An enormous base of irises in full flower . When I see this I made a note to prove and use more works of fewer varieties in my own garden , because the sheer wallop of a handsome mass of just one sword lily like this is very hard to ticktack . We ’ll see how well that resolution holds up next time I ’m at the nursery , however . It is so tempting to just get one of everything !

Pitcher plants ( Sarraceniaspecies and hybrids , Zones 5–9 ) are best be intimate for their beautiful insect - catching leaves , but the flowers are wonderful as well . There are immense plantings of many dissimilar pitcher works all around the pond here .

search across the pool to the Nipponese maples on the other side , yellowish hurler works flowers ( Sarraceniaflavavar.rugelli , Zones 5–10 ) support out in the foreground .

This radical of container is fill with a divers collection of yearbook and perennial , but the Twinny Peach snapdragon ( Antirrhinummajus‘Twinny Peach ’ , annual ) , with loads of rippled peach flowers , takes midway microscope stage .

Towering cinnamon ferns ( Osmundacinnamomea , Zones 3–9 ) show off in the timber garden with a marvelous rhododendron blossom behind them .

Although most of the rosiness in Lewis Ginter ’s enormous rose garden were not quite in flower when I visit , this climb rose , trained across a declamatory rock marquee , put on a breathtaking show .

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