A Secret Garden Behind the Hedge

Creating new spaces in a hidden corner of the garden

Welcome to Judy Boyle ’s garden !

Hemlocks ( Tsugacanadensis , Zones 3–7 ) , Leyland cypress ( ×Cupressocyparisleylandii , zone 6–10 ) , and green giants ( Thuja‘Green Giant ’ , Zones 5–8 ) create a privacy moulding for the backdrop of my half acre . As proud as I am of my lawn and garden in front of this backcloth , visualise from the integral back of the business firm , I am even more proud of what I ’ve achieve ( along with resplendent Mother Nature ! ) behind the backcloth of my Zone 7A garden .

Three years ago , this was a forgotten section of property behind the wall of evergreen plant . Fallen branches , dead Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , poison common ivy , and discarded stone were strewn everywhere . Little by little , I began clearing the distance of all the dust .

My married man build this adorable shed , and it ’s now in the process of getting landscaped .

I have mostly planted astilbe , fern , hydrangeas , rhododendrons , Panthera tigris lily , ajuga , ivy , creeping Jenny , and hostas . There are very few annuals in my garden . For the preceding few years , I have only embed perennials ; otherwise , I ’d go entirely bankrupt .

More of the young landscape painting behind the evergreen bulwark .

This is one of the openings from the Grant Wood to the main part of the backyard , which is in front of the evergreen wall .

My hubby built this pool about 20 years ago . It had an teemingness of koi for many years , but deplorably they pop off during a particularly frigid wintertime , and now we habituate the pond as a water garden .

In front of the evergreen wall is a garden filled with grasses , sedum , peonies , iris , and on and on .

I have been smite with gardening for 40 years . Every female parent ’s twenty-four hours since my girl was born more than 30 years ago , I ’ve received something special to plant in purity of all mum . I do n’t know how I will ever leave my garden . ( Here is a crying blue cedar , Cedrusatlantica‘Glauca pendula ’ , Zones 6–9 . )

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