Tom’s Garden ABCs

Today ’s picture are from Tom .

Hello from Zone 6 near Buffalo , New York ! I ’ve been grow with my garden for more than two ten , and my garden has been a playground , a canvass , and a schoolroom .

I ’ve memorise my ABCs in the garden :

Appreciate the amazing .

Be in the beaut of the present moment .

Connect with the creation around you .

I became a grandfather this past year , and like a garden before it ’s grown , my hopes and pipe dream for my grandchild began before he was born . Time moves forward , changes come after , but the ABCs stay ground in the garden . This twelvemonth I am experiencing a new gardening time of year like never before , bewilder to share it with my Modern grandson . My wish for my grandson and all of you is that you recollect the ABCs the garden can learn you and that you too become ground in the garden !

swarm of rudbeckia ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 3–9 ) in the foreground , with the garden beyond

A perfect oral sex of hydrangea ( Hydrangeamacrophylla , Zones 5–9 ) shows off against the special K of a dwarf Alberta spruce ( Piceaglauca‘Conica ’ , Zones 2–8 ) .

Tom ’s new grandson is search the garden and adopt it all in .

Dense plantings oftrees and shrubsand perennial grow together into a groundless tapestry of green .

A planting of marigolds ( Tageteserecta , annual ) brings a pop music of bright color to the garden .

A statue of a heron hang up out by the weewee garden . The bold unripened leaf on the right are pickerelweed ( Pontederiacordata , Zones 3–10 ) , anative plantthat like to grow in shallow water .

A twosome of frog natter the garden .

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