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This is one of dozens of to-die-for spots I found at Pennsylvania's Chanticleer Garden this week. This lush "pleasure garden" proves, as all my favorite gardens do, that shrubs make the garden. Those mid-range mounds of chartreuse? Spireas. Awesome with purples. The garden's one-of-a-kind hardscape also helps.
More coming soon from my trip to Chanticleer, the Scott Arboretum and the Morris Arboretum. In a word? OMIGOD.
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Hmmmm. Allium with spirea. A note for next spring. Thanks.
Posted by: commonweeder | May 22, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Gee, I have alliums going gangbusters in the back garden, and spirea in the front. What if... Hey, good idea.
Posted by: Helen at Toronto Gardens | May 22, 2009 at 02:48 PM
Philly has some great gardens. Funny, when I lived there I didn't appreciate them! I go back every year just to garden hop.
Posted by: Jenny | May 22, 2009 at 06:33 PM
Chanticleer, the whole damn thing, is absolutely to die for. I remember this view, Susan, and loved it too, although it was mid-summer and the alliums were brown when we saw it. I can't wait to go back and see Chanticleer again one day.
Posted by: Pam/Digging | May 22, 2009 at 08:51 PM