Alice’s Ontario Garden

Heucheras and other favorites

We ’re in Sweaburg , Ontario , visit with Alice Fleurkens . We ’ve been to her garden before ( Alice ’s Front Garden in Canada ) so check out the early mail if you want to see more .

This is the first yr in about six years that I have been able to do more gardening again . It is so pleasurable to see the garden grow .

These bush now require a drasticpruningevery twelvemonth . And theSiberian iris(Iris siberica , Zones 4–8 ) has found itself a spotlight where I do n’t really need it , so later it will have to go .

Oh , how I love coral bells(Heucherahybrids , Zones 4–8 ) , even though the pismire are attacking them leave and right . It seems to be their favorite plant for making ant hills in .

A ma’am gave me some golden - orange heuchera . It is very lowly this yr , but it is coming along .

This eatage was also given to me . ( Sorry , I do n’t know the name of anything . ) We had a great large cedar in front of the basement windowpane and decide we wanted it conk , so my hubby very cleverly slew it down himself .

This garden go all the path down the hill . I planted some moregrassesin it , and thebleeding heartsare doing fantastic . They had to be overcompensate with blankets a week ago because we had Robert Frost , and they immobilize in other years and so did damage to the hostas and lilies . They did not die ; they just bet ugly for a while .

There is nomulchin the garden yet . But peradventure we will still mulch or maybe not . We are undecided . It is expensive .

More genus Heuchera give color in the garden .

There was another cedar there in the corner by the doorway , but it was hitting the roof and did not wait very good , so it is live on too . There is a nice hosta and someMiscanthusgrass , which does not seem to be doing too well .

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