Visiting another part of this iconic garden
We ’re visiting the beautiful gardens of Heronswood again , with more exposure from Cherry Ong . Today it is into the timber garden , a godforsaken - looking jungle of beautiful and strange plants .
Various shade - loving plant combine together to create a rich arras of colors and texture . The large , speckled leaves of an Asiatic May apple ( Podophyllumspecies ) mingle with fern to make a stack of interest without a single flower in scene .
I grew up thinking ofbegoniasas mostly houseplants , but their colorful , textural leaf can depend wonderful when they are embed out as yearly ( or even , depend on the variety and your clime , perennials ) in a shade garden . There are infinite begonia varieties , but this one reckon like it might be ‘ Gryphon ’ , which is fearless in Zones 8–10 .
A minute track beckons , with stepping stones across a low area and promise of more beautiful plants ahead .
Plants develop over and out of the structure around a H2O feature , giving the feeling of a ruin taken over by nature .
HardyCyclamenpurpurascenshas beautiful silver - marbled leaf and fragrant pink flowers in the summertime and capitulation . This is one of the brave metal money of cyclamen , live , by some reports , up to Zone 4 or even Zone 3 . Just be indisputable to protect the bulbs from rodents , as chipmunk and voles like to snack on them .
Towering Orange River lilies arch over the path .
Saxifragastoloniferagoes by the common name of strawberry begonia , because it has silver - patterned , begonia - like leaves and bring about plantlets at the end of runners like a begonia . It can be grow as a houseplant , or provide to form a earth cover out of doors , as it is here , in Zones 6–9 . The delicate cloud of white bloom is a incentive !
Heronswood looks like it might just be paradise .
sculpture supply height to the lush quilt of green .
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