From Annuals to Orchids in Connecticut

Diverse scenes from a spectacular garden

Today we have more photos from the fantastic garden of Elle Ronis in Stamford , Connecticut . ( See a old Emily Post from herhere . )

Abelmoschusmanihot(Zones 8–10 or as annual ) is a stuffy relative of the vegetable okra , but it ’s grow for these immense , hibiscus - like flowers .

Native to Mexico , Cosmosbipinnatus(annual ) is easy to grow from ejaculate , provides a long season of bloom , and is a great excision bloom .

fence to keep out deer is wrap up withclematis .

Opium poppies ( Papaversomniferum , annual )

Now is a good sentence to sow opium poppies in many gardens ; they ’ll germinate as the ground warms in the spring .

The front first appearance

This clematis has go groundless , spilling over the fencing . Many of the clematis in the garden acquire on teepees made from improbable stakes . The clematis erotic love to grow on them .

I have hundreds of daylilies that I plant in a multicolored border .

orchidaceous plant

I used to be an esurient orchid agriculturalist . I had ten thousand plants growing under lights in my basement .

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