Snug Harbor Cultural Center had a plant sale this weekend. Picked up a phlox, a veronica speedwell and a periVincle, all for a good cause. It was misty all Saturday morning, but I still took a stroll around the place. A large part of the cultural center is the
Botanical Garden, which has a Chinese Scholars garden, a white garden, a Peony garden (most had gone to seed), a herb garden, a secret garden, a rose garden, a Tuscan Garden and a greenhouse, but no Rock Garden. This is the Neptune Fountain, Snug Harbor used to be a old age home for old sailors till the 1960s when they were shipped off to North Carolina.
This is some plant from the White Garden.
This is the Allee of pleached Hornbeams, I can imagine it being scary if it was foggy.
Meanwhile back home.
'Japonica senanense', a dwarf sedum, in a fake stone bowl with a mica flaked quartz mountain and lava pebbles flown in special from Hawaii. A new purchase, but not from Snug Harbor.
Our Peony Garden interspersed with Lilly of the Valley and Spanish Blue bells
Clematis 'Nellie Moser', this year we have had the most blooms yet.
Erodium, this one actually made it through the winter.
Saxifrage - paniculata minutifolia 'Red Backed Spider'
From the front garden we have some Coral Bells.
Common Comfrey - a good addition to a compost heap, it adds lots of nitrogen.
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