A private garden with beauty all year
Today ’s berth is from Amy Birdsong , who is sharing with us a trip she take on to an amazing private garden in Virginia .
Bill and Linda Pinkhamare creative person , daylily breeders , horticulturists , and landscape blueprint experts who retired from the greenhouse business over twenty long time ago . Since “ retirement , ” they created and proceed to mature and nurture a collector ’s garden on the James River in Virginia . Google them and you will see that they and their garden are quite famous , and with in force reasonableness . Over several acres are winding paths of tree diagram and plants intersperse with Isidor Feinstein Stone , sculpture , and flock . The Pinkhams open up their garden to the public several times a year in spring and summer , but my mother - in - law and I were golden to get a tour this week . In the spring and summertime when leaf are crimson out and flowers are showing off , we all celebrate our gardens , but fall and wintertime can be just as magical . With leaf starting to wrick and flowers founder over and dying back , unexpected vignettes acquire and a garden ’s morphologic plants stand out in ways that we can fully appreciate . The Pinkhams ’ garden is a gross place to witness fall peach . The curving path are stress throughout by tropicals ( like Bill ’s favourite — agaves),evergreens , sculptured conifers , acubas , camelia , anthesis shrubs , perennial flowers , and annuals . There are literally thousands of works . Some of the strange varieties come from specialty glasshouse , but the Pinkhams are equal chance customers , buy from local big box stores just as easy as obscure and far-off position . My pictures do n’t begin to do their garden jurist , but relish !
The spiky leaves ofYuccarostrata(Zones 6–9 ) give interestingness all year .
Bromeliads aretropical plantswith striking foliage often grown as houseplant . These will postulate security once frost threatens .
Who needs blossom whenfoliagehas such a range of colors andtextures ?
grandiloquent cannas ( Cannahybrid , Zones 7–10 ) add up late - time of year color with their flowers .
The beautiful whale ’s tongue agave ( Agaveovatifolia , Zones 7–11 )
A hardy medal ( probablyTrachycarpusfortunei , Zones 7–10 )
Anoakleaf hydrangea(Hydrangeaquercifolia‘Vaughn ’s Lillie ’ , Zones 5–9 )
Spotted aucuba ( Aucubajaponica , Zones 7–9 ) has evergreen foliage liberally splash with Au .
The brilliantly colored fruit ofEuonymusamericanus(Zones 6–9 )
This late - blooming salvia with bright magenta flowers is probablySalviainvolucrataor a exchangeable species .
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