Shelley’s Upstate New York Garden

A garden packed with blooms

Today we ’re visiting with Shelley Haefner in Old Chatham , New York , who is sharing a few favorite garden photo that always help her make it through those retentive New York wintertime .

I start gardening ten years ago in an attack to “ pretty ” my yard . small did I realize the journeying I was about to begin ! Our home is situated in upstate New York , one-half of our landscape is in theshade , and the other one-half is in full sunshine . I get the unspoiled of both populace and revel creating interactive gardens around my home . I employ mostly perennials , shrubs , and small trees . My garden have meandering border and follow the contours of our natural landscape painting . Beauty was only the rootage of my journeying . The garden has since rewarded me with amazing experiences . I love get word more every year about the human relationship between louse and flowers , works and grunge , and man and nature . It is my true happy position .

My nicety garden is over 40 feet long and 20 feet all-embracing !

In the full sun garden , apanicle hydrangea(Hydrangea paniculata , Zones 3–8 ) bloom in the foreground , and a diversity of coneflowers(Echinaceahybrids , Zones 4–8 ) and other perennials do the same beyond .

Another view of the full - Lord’s Day garden .

‘ Festivus ’ daylily(Hemerocallis‘Festivus ’ , Zones 3–9 ) takes center stage in the sun garden .

The bowlder to the far right was dig up during digging of our property . It is an amazing part of the structure for this shade garden .

A local artisan in the Catskills built this hick cedar arbor for me as the entry to myvegetable garden .

I arrest this peach on my phone and used the “ bouncy ” choice to see it to the full open up its wings as it vanish .

icteric hakone grass(Hakonechloamacra‘All Gold ’ , Zones 5–9 ) spotlight the foreground of this small island bed .

Hummingbird on our catmint(Nepeta× faassenii , Zones 3–8 ) .

look down the length of the shade garden .

A tree frog rests on ‘ Golden Jubilee ’ hyssop(Agastacherugosa‘Golden Jubilee ’ , Zones 5–8 ) .

former summertime , packing the flush in !

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