Anne Arundel County, May 30: Two fabulous private gardens were open to the public as part of the Open Days Program that helps support The Garden Conservancy.
Along the way we came upon this rowboat and a "shore bird" among the rose campion:
The Garden of Nancy and Pierre Moitrier was featured in the WaPo. The Moitrier's run a landscape design and gardening business so their third-of-an-acre garden in southwest Annapolis has berms, walls, water features, a treehouse and is filled with all sorts of plants. The swale is landscaped as a brook:
Salvia, allium and iris:
Pierre uses Eastern red cedar to fashion fences, railings, trellises and benches. An almost Chippendale deer fence surrounds the potager:
The treehouse:
Musa basjoo (the Japanese banana that is hardy to Maine) offsets the patio:
The Mewshaw Lindstrom Garden, in the heart of an old tobacco farm near Mitchellville, features five-acres of gardens with room for much more than a pony. There are numerous perennial borders--sun or shade. One stretching 100 by 15 feet has a rose trellis on the north side of its 100-foot length. There were kitchen gardens, a cutting garden. espalliered fruit trees and 2 active bee hives. A large waterlily pond was surrounded by a flagstone patio. We spied a cat, two dogs, doves, a golden pheasant, a rooster and 2 peacocks which acted as if they owned the place.
Japanese iris (Kakitsubata) and dragonfly:
The 100-foot perennial bed:
A Bigleaf magnolia:
Catalpa:
Peacock:
Busy beehive with peacock cries:
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