I've been in Danville, Va.,
this weekend visiting with Maxine.
I've always loved her backyard.
It's a magical place.
Back in June when I visited,
her garden looked like this.
My dear friend, Marion,
commented on that post, saying,
Hey Rosie,
I've always admired the pix of Maxine's garden.
Would you get a little more detail on how it's laid out,
and what she grows?
It's wonderful.
Well, Marion,
it's like this:
You go out Max's back door
and you see this:
Maxine did all the pavers herself.
Azaleas and American boxwood
grow around the perimeter.
I'd love to know the waxy-leaved
tree on the front left.
Wish I'd taken a close-up of it,
but I figger I can rely on
my friend Zzzadig to enlarge it
(Probably not necessary for him.)
and come back within minutes,
if not seconds,
with the botanical identification.
In the foreground is Vinca
and a lovely blue hydrangea
that was in full bloom when I was
here in June.
This is looking down the center bed.
Liriope around the edges
with a white echinacea somewhere in there
and the stalks of Casa Blanca lilies
and some type of statuary.
Acuba on either side of the gate,
birdbath,
liriope edge on the perimeter of the center bed.
On the right side,
branch of crape myrtle.
Looking on the long right side, next door.
I love the little tree house.
Graceful bare bones of the crape myrtle.
I like this.
Yellow house.
Green shutters.
Blue hydrangea.
The last set of pictures
was taken in the morning light.
Let's see what the afternoon holds.
Afternoon in Maxine's garden:
The backyard from Maxine's kitchen door.
Note the difference in the light.
The lighting, the angle, and the color.
Looking down the middle.
Pathway of pavers on left,
turning right,
and going out gate.
Middle garden of liriope
around the perimeter,
white coneflower in there,
and stalks of spent Casa Blanca lilies.
(A lovely, fragrant, white lily.)
Acubas against the back fence.
I love this piece of whatever
with the lily stalks about it.
Looks Asian to me
but I don't know what it is.
Acubas on either side of the back gate
with bird bath which Maxine
went out and filled.
It's terribly hot and dry here.
102 degrees in the shade.
Mr. Hawthorne called me Saturday afternoon,
while I was shooting these afternoon pictures,
to tell me the temperature in Bassett was 112.
This is looking out the right hand side.
The long side.
Love the tree house
and the play house or apartment
or whatever.
Crape myrtle in center.
It has smooth, exquisite wood.
I need to come back to Maxine's at different times
throughout the year:
in the spring so I can get the azaleas blooming;
during the summer to get the hydrangeas,
the crape myrtle,
the Casa Blanca lilies,
and whatever else I missed.
I do have pictures of the snow in February.
That unexpected snowfall
was just the icing on our romantic
Valentine Day's dinner
several years ago.
Haven't been here in the fall.
Need to put that on my to-do list.
3 comments:
Thank you for the tour and thank you, Maxine, for allowing Rosie to share your lovely garden with us.
Hey, thanks, Rosie (and Maxine). It's even lovelier than I thought. Makes me want to go in my backyard with a flame thrower and just start over...
At the resolution I was able to get, it seems to be a Large Pixel Tree, variety obscurus.
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