 Spectacular gardens; wonderful clipped hedges containing robust perennial beds |
 Huge gladiolas |
 The potage! |
 Okay, it is a vegetable garden, but it is spectacular |
 That's fennel on the right side |
 Don't know the name of that tall thin stem, but it reminded me of a plant Lynda's dad grew |
 Ceramic or stoneware containers are artfully placed in the beds |
 Intriguing use of a container |
 Beautiful color, huge blooms |
 Roses and Queen Anne's Lace |
 Zinnias! |
 Great color combination |
 Red hot poker with beautiful cactus |
 They grow a large number of turf grasses |
 Interesting use of plants around the base of all the trees |
 This room had a walkway mowed into the grass |
 More fennel! |
 Love in a Mist |
 Beautiful fennel |
 Large white nicotiana |
 Looking across the lawn |
 Love in a Mist |
 Across the lawn |
 (Having focus issues with my camera); variety of plants |
 One of the buildings with wonderful foundation beds |
 The beds and a dog butt |
 Lantana and asparagus under a tree |
 Not sure what the front plant is |
 Lantana again, blooming and lush under a tree! |
 Sculpture in front of the pond |
 The pond; the grass in front is like a putting green |
 Arrangement on the deck |
 A side yard |
 Better view of the insulator tree |
 Back across the pond |
 Large potted accent plant in a bed |
 Training cypress across the path |
 Crinums blooming weeks before mine! |
 Artichoke as bedding plant |
 Pathway |
 Alliums |
 Alliums and the view across the pond |
 Woods as backdrop |
 Another view across the pond |
 Another view |
 We had no idea what this bush/tree is, but the red is spectacular |
 You can see it on the left in this photo; it shows up orange, but it was more red than orange |
 Great bench |
 Peaceful with places to sit all around it |
 And a wide variety of plants and trees |
 View of the path from the garden house |
 Garden house |
 View of the swirl from the garden house |
 Bog plants on the edge of the other pond |
 Back of the pond house |
 Bog plants again |
 Incredible mosaic swirl |
 Intriguing mosaic |
 Surrounded by turf grass |
 Wonderfully peaceful to contemplate |
 Back of pond house |
 Tractor tires with turf grass and lotus |
 View across pond |
 Tires with turf grass and lotus |
 Pond house and swirl |
 Artwork at the edge of the smaller pond |
 Mosaic |
 the water flows from the container around the swirl.... |
 ...down into the pond |
 That great bench |
 Across the water |
 Milk cans on a tiny dock |
 Rushes and lilies |
 Training the trees |
 Serene garden |
 Intriguing use of native sweetgum |
 Art in the garden |
 The maintenance of the gardens is wonderful |
 Great spiney large artichoke plants |
 Against antique baskets |
 Large variety of yarrows |
 Work table; water spigot is in the stump |
 Another mosaic in the turf grass |
 Peaceful view |
 Another view |
 Mexican hats |
 Great combination |
 Powder blue salvia |
 Nice seating |
 All of the pots have under plantings |
 Again a view of the lawn |
 Draingage ditch |
 Discussing the green roof |
 Vitex around the greenhouse |
 These are the broken bricks used on top of the green roof |
 The green roof - 6" of medium with drip lines |
 A very wide variety of plants are being tried on the roof, including veggies |
 The workshop attached to the greenhouse |
 hahahahahahaha |
 Potted plants and trailer with potting soil |
 Mmmmmmm clean new potting bench |
 Great potting shed |
 Samples of plants in greenhouse |
 Great, Philadelphia Flower Show-worthy potted plants |
 In the greenhouse |
 Tiny, tiny little sedum |
 Plants in pots decorate the greenhouse |
 Plants ready to be put out in the garden |
 Great variety of well-grown plants |
 Rainwater gathered in the large cistern |
 Recycled pots |
 Around the outside plants is a row of pyracantha |
 Including a variety with incredible spines |
 Another view of the plant tables..... |
 ...with plants waiting for their day in the flower beds |
 Huge vitex |
 Close up of bench |
 In the middle of the formal garden is a fountain |
 with several thousand different plants |
 and glass balls floating in the water |
 Blooming artichoke |
 The spectacular fountain |
 The fountain itself is really something |
 the plants make it look like a village |
 Scene in the woods |
 Sitting area |
 the path through the woods |
 Native plants in the woods |
 Turf area surrounded by plants |
 Pitcher plants blooming |
 Grasses and pitcher plants |
 Where we parked |
 Greeting at the main building |
 Pitcher plants |
 A few plants for sale -- bought herbs and pineapple sage |
 Pitcher plants |
 Base of the fire tower - huge cereus |
 Looking up the fire tower |
 admiring the hanging plants in the fire tower |
 Blooming cactus in the fire tower |
 Long needle pines, slow growing and looking like monks |
 Queen Anne's Lace |
 Introduction to the garden |
 Name of the turf grass |
 Nice place to sit |
 Discussing turf grass |
 Admiring the native flowers |
 View of native flowers |
 Path through the woods |
 Another nice place to sit |
 The front beds along the road |
 Inside the manicured hedges |
 the front fields by the road |
 And the surrounding countryside |
 Crinums |
 Bamboo sculpture |
 Beautifully maintained |
 Another inside bed |
 Spectacular orchid |
 the red is eye-popping |
 Not sure what the plant on the left is |
 Under plantings |
 Crinums |