The last long weekend of the summer has come and gone. As with previous long weekends this summer I snuck in a little garden watching. Take a look at what I found at Colpoy’s Bay (Wiarton).
I love this garden. I’ve walked past it every summer for the past four years. At any given time over the spring, summer and fall there is always a profusion of blooms. It starts off as a woodsy, natural garden at the front, as shown in the picture above and changes to more of a cottage-style, full-to-overflowing garden in the back.
With meandering paths, a water feature, and multiple rustic trellises, this garden seems to have it all. And if you ever get tired of looking at the garden, there’s always the view of the bay. On this particular weekend the garden boasted massive quantities of purple coneflower and rudbeckia at their peak.
I couldn’t resist a repeat visit to Rural Roots. I had to make the donation that I didn’t have cash for on an earlier visit this summer. Truth be told, any excuse would do.
I missed mentioning in my previous post, Gardens Off The Beaten Path, that Tom Ashman at Rural Roots holds workshops on building cedar trellises, arbors and obelisks. The above photo displays one of his trellises in operation. The garden was gorgeous as always. The highlight of this visit was the anemones in bloom and the monarch butterflies flitting about the butterfly bushes.
Even long weekends are too short and before I knew it I had to head home. I thought my weekend garden watching was over, but much to my delight when I was almost home I had the pleasure of spotting this glorious site.
This gardener is working with a white and green color scheme and the results are outstanding! White hydrangeas are surrounded by hostas with fragrant white blooms. The white anemones are just coming out under the bow window. Hostas and anemones have been long-time favorites of mine, but I might just have to add a hydrangea to my collection next year. Good to know that I don’t have to travel far to find garden inspiration. This one is just a short walk away!
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