Tingshu’s Back Garden in Late Summer

Revisiting to a Massachusetts garden that shines through all the seasons

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Today we ’re returning to the always beautiful garden of Tingshu Hu in Dunstable , Massachusetts . We ’ve seen her garden through the seasons ( Spring : Flowering Trees in Tingshu ’s Garden , summer : Summer in Tingshu ’s Front GardenandBack Garden , and fall : Tingshu ’s Massachusetts Garden ) , and most of late saw her transform a deadened patch of her lawn into a low - sustainment haven ( Tingshu ’s Low Maintenance Garden in Massachusetts ) . Now we will be seeing all of the unbelievable plants and sexual union that smoothen in her garden during the transitional menses of late summer . Today is a focussing on her back gardens and tomorrow we will back to tour the front garden , which will include an update on that unbelievable low - maintenance space she showed off earlier this yr .

The eye of the back garden is a Prairiefire crabapple(Malusx ‘ Prairifire ’ , Zones 4–8 ) . The picture show some ramification of the tree debase with cherry-red berries . Below the crabapple tree are a few coleus plant , surrounded bycreeping jenny(Lysimachianummularia , Zones 4–8).Beside the crabapple tree areJapanese Barberry(Berberisthunbergii , Zones 5–8)and gnome Colorado blue spruce .

Another focal point in the back garden is the fish pond . One yellow lotus(Nelumbo lutea , Zones 4–11)is blooming in the pool . Another lotus with pink flowergrows in a pot beside a pergola . There are many gold Pisces and bull frogs in the pond . A snake on a regular basis confab the pool . Around the fish pool are low raise and humbled criminal maintenance priming coat covers . A few annuals , Sallyfun ™ Deep Ocean salvia(Salviafarinacea‘Deep Ocean ’ , annual),floss flower(Ageratum houstonianum , annual)and zinnia , contribute long lasting color . The yellow and orangish blossom on the right side are black - eyed Susan andrudbeckia . A Nipponese maple and a redtwig dogwood are on the back ( due north ) side of the pond . Between them is a tall garden phlox with pink flush .

A path lead to the fish pond . Pink phlox and rainbow colored dahlia are blooming . On the other side of the itinerary are white flower oflilium ‘ Casa Blanca’(Zones 4–9),red rose and pinkish dahlia . The ground embrace along the way are mostly fawn jenny andajuga . Next year they should fill up all the gaps .

appear toward the fish pond from the west side . A dahlia plant with dark purple leave and pink heyday place upright on the compass north side of the patio . Beside it are hummingbird mint , salvia , red - hot porker with icteric flowers .

A sight from the terrace toward the west . A maple tree has commence to turn color on Sept. 20 .

look through the arching leaves of a maiden grass(Miscanthussinensis‘Gracillimus ’ , Zones 4–9),bright yellow and orange bloom of smutty - eyed Susan and rudbeckia are visible at the far ending . On the right side are pinkish dahlia , zinnia , pinkish phlox and ground bosom floss flowers .

A stone retaining wall with pussyfoot jenny seep through the gaps . A red coleus is plant above the stone wall , under a magnolia Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Also visible are the pinkish flowers of aJapanese anemone(Anemone hupehensisvar.japonica , Zones 5–7)and pinkish rose flowers . Below the stone wall are zinnias and a assumed cypress .

The Nipponese anemone bloom are very adorable looking from their back .

Under a wisteria pergola , looking toward the center of the garden . Two silk melon ( luffa ) flow from the pergola . Pink phlox blossom along the metallic element fence .

Dahlia flowers — Maybe Happy Single Juliet ( Dahlia‘HS Juliet ’ , zona 3–10)?—with inaugural pasture in the background .

What a vibrant , yet lush and relax setting as the day get shorter and cool ! Be sure to check back tomorrow to see Tingshu ’s every bit receive front garden .

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