Caroline’s Louisiana Garden

A cottage garden full of roses

Caroline Williams is sharing photos from her Louisiana garden today . We ’ve visited her garden before , so commence here — unbend in the Garden — if you want to see her garden in other seasons .

The mansion at Caroline ’s front entrance says “ Welcome , ” and the over - the - top abundance of flowers echoes the same sentiment ! tons of rose are number into flower , indorse up bysnapdragons(Antirrhummajus , annual ) .

In front of these pink wine isrose campion(Lychniscoronaria , Zones 4–8 ) , abiennial . It make a rosette of silvery result the first yr , then springs up to produce showy cherry-red blossom after it goes through winter . Plants commonly die after flowering but willself - sowif you let them .

This rose in full peak search to be ‘ Double Knockout ’ ( Rosa‘Radtko ’ , Zones 5–9 ) , which is still one of the most disease - immune varieties you may mature .

Caroline uses a lot ofcontainersin the garden to add even more color and interest to her plantings .

An absolutely perfect white rose begin to unfurl .

I ’m not certain what thisflowering shrubis , but that is quite the display of white flowers .

Across the garden , flowers are visible everywhere .

These rose wine and snapdragons are blooming together . Snapdragons will bloom all summertime in nerveless - summertime climates , but in the South they are usually grown as a winterannual , coming into peak bloom in other summer before melt in the heat .

The flower spike of a yellowbaptisia(probablyBaptisiasphaerocarpa , zone 5–8 , or one of the newer baptisia crossbreed ) provides a nice demarcation to the red rose next to it .

Caroline ’s garden is in a classiccottage - garden style — informal , personal , and filled with flowers .

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