Not last, nor least. Color is nothing without form. Form is meaningless without function. In combination, a place of exceptional beauty emerges.
A tumble of wildflowers surrounds a front walk, including blanketflower, yarrow, butterfly weed, lavender, threadleaf coreopsis and fringed bleeding heart
A rock garden swale captures and drains roof runoff to feed river birch, grasses, herbs and assorted wildflower perennials
Hellebore and daffodil for a burst of early spring color
Terraced rock garden in early summer bloom including cranesbill and bowmans root
Bird and butterfly garden at Mass Audobon's Boston Nature Center with cardinal flower and clustered mountain mint in bloom
Terraced rock garden in bloom
Bringing it all together!
July blooms including oak leaf hydrangea, 'Tiny Tuff-Stuff' hydrangea and everblooming daylily
Shade garden with bellflower in bloom
Late summer blooms featuring 'endless summer' hydrangea, various anise hyssop, butterfly weed and purple lobelia
The color continues with an explosion of 'Fireworks' goldenrod in September. Leaving seedheads from Summer blooms invites migrating birds.