Kaleidoscopic Magic In Jay’s Autumn Garden

Revisiting Jay Sifford’s vibrant garden in North Carolina, where vibrant conifers get a new life in the late season

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former November get some new magic to my passel garden called Rhodwood . I ’m situate in the northwestern - most county of North Carolina , at 3300 feet . I was zone 6b , but was late moved to 7a , an unwelcome event in my mind .

Because the winters can be long , sullen and cold here , creating a four season garden was a top precedency . The peak flowering prison term is July , but in fall , nature seems to drape the garden in kaleidoscopic magic . Bright foliage play well with the now - dormant eatage and the ( mostly ) green coniferous tree . Since Ashe County produces more Christmas trees than just about anywhere else , the conifers in my garden enjoin the story of Place .

The entryway into the front garden is framed with a simple and minimalistic aluminum portal . This portal border the axial focal point , a little planted island adorned with blown glass lance . From here , the eye is by design pulled through the garden by a overplus of different colour , textures and material body . This immersive garden has transcend my expectations , and enhances my lifetime every clip I labour up those big hills !

The aluminum hepatic portal vein that marks the entrance to the front garden .

drop foliage putting on quite the show .

The conifers , from this ‘ Helga ’ Austrian pine(Pinusnigra‘Helga ’ , Zones 4–8)to various blue spruces , ply twelvemonth - round structure , color and grain .

A large planting of ‘ All Au ’ shore juniper(Juniperusconferta‘All Gold ’ , Zones 6–9)repeats the color of the ‘ Skylands ’ Oriental spruce(Piceaorientalis‘Skylands ’ , Zones 4–7 ) .

The blown looking glass shaft add a bright stain of color . In time of year , they mime the color and form of 180 flower blaze out star(Liatrisspicata , Zones 3–8 ) .

View toward Bald Mountain , across the route . Hurricane Helene , which luckily spared my garden , blew most of the leave off of the tree on the fence in mountains , bollocks our normal color extravaganza .

Driedpanicle hydrangea(Hydrangea paniculata , zone 3–8)flower heads against feather reed grass(Calamagrostis×acutiflora , Zones 4–11).I have it off the apposition of bod and grain .

The dispirited leafage of this blank fir(Abies concolor , Zones 3–7)stands out against the good deal planting of ‘ Karley Rose ’ genus Pennisetum grass(Pennisetumorientale‘Karley Rose ’ , Zones 5–10 ) .

The ‘ Shishigashira ’ Japanese maple(Acerpalmatum‘Shishigashira ’ , Zones 5–8)is the most beautiful shadowiness of reddish - orange . In Charlotte , where I work , the foliation on this maple turns xanthous , not red .

My newest obsession is sarracenias , aka pitcher plants . I have three sink “ tub gardens ” filled with them . I use them in ways that nature would never do . Here , this one scramble against the foliage of ‘ Blue Star ’ juniper(Juniperus squamata‘Blue Star ’ , zona 4–8).I love creating unexpected vignettes .

I ’ve been planting Japanese forest grass on this incline for several days now . It ’s such a sluggish growing gage . I desire it to eventually cover the intact slope . I ’ve engraft two different type , one green , one variegated , to create an interesting tapestry effect .

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