Garden Tours

Yesterday was rainy early (another 4 tenths of an inch) and then cloudy and unsettled later,  Very cool, in the low 60s, but nice enough for Kit Gibby, Gwen Olmstead and me to go on a garden tour in Simsbury.

A very intensively built shady garden, with lovely plants.  A couple plans that I want to duplicate were of interest.

Climbing hydrangea, on a pergola like I want mine to grow, and scrambling up tree trunks.

Rosa glauca, a nice shape, pruned up a bit.  I want to replace my knockout roses with this.

Afterwards, we came back and they toured my garden, we looked at Gwen's and we had a look at Kit's.  I love Kit's dry stream bed, and need to incorporate more of the random edges and larger boulders in my tiny one.