A Garden to Linger In in Northern California

Plants large and small create this detailed garden

Today we ’re visiting Donna Vail ’s garden .

My home is in Crescent City , the last city before leavingNorthern California .

I survive on an acre on the banks of the Smith River in a coastal redwood woodland . As so many of the residents here , I fall in sexual love with this place while visiting the sequoia park on holiday . After we retired from San Diego , we moved here .

I have been garden since the early nineties . I would go to every garden tour I could go to and visit botanical gardens to get ideas and talk to people who know more than I did . It paid off , because no matter where I live my garden thrive .

I have many varieties of flower plants along with dwarfconifers . The mild winters and summers make all of our plants fly high here . I like my gardens to be capricious , so I have nance gardens , decorative bird houses , painted rocks , etc . I want my garden to be interesting even in the wintertime when the flowering plants are in their dormant Department of State .

I like to think of the redwoods , dwarf conifers , anddwarf maplesas the bones of the garden . And my flowers are the jewels of the garden . gnome conifer originate between 1 to 6 in a year , while a miniature conifer grows less than one in per twelvemonth . We like these plants because they are humbled maintenance and they are evergreen plant . Our garden has many surd - to - find and rarified plants . My garden is designed to linger in and take one ’s clip in while strolling along the river .

Gardens should be shared . At my last dwelling house in Crescent City , over 500 people toured my garden . There is something for everyone . Once there was a group of people gathered around a large redwood stump . Everyone had their cameras out and were mingling . I walked up to determine a big anuran sitting next to a fagot garden door . It was quite the photo opportunity .

When you reckon about the world of gardening , it seems like an sempiternal motley of plants to explore for a lifetime of interest . That ’s why I get it on horticulture .

Beautifulconifersare the bones of this garden .

A collection ofbirdhousesand annuals make a full point of bright coloring against the beautiful fleeceable landscape .

A twice - blossom Oriental lily ( Lilium , Oriental group , Zones 5–8 ) . These flowers with excess petal are incredibly beautiful , but they need the right-hand conditions to allow them to open amply .

It ’s hard to even discover this beautiful rose when the background is so unbelievable . What a magical space to have a garden .

A tiny poove clothesline ! This is a garden of contrasts , with coastal redwood and the tiny of fairy garden .

A frog visit the fairy garden . Maybe if someone buss it , it ’ll turn into a prince ?

Any bird that moved into this birdhouse would have the most beautiful , fragrant front yard conceivable .

Dwarf and miniature conifers are a great improver to any garden . wait up the annual growth rate of a conifer before you plant it is a great way to check that it wo n’t get too great for your space .

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