Erin’s New Hampshire Garden

Phlox and other garden favorites

Today we ’re visiting with Erin Sweeney .

Hello ! We lead off building our house and garden in 2003 in northern New Hampshire . It is all hand - built and has elaborate over the age to admit a largevegetable garden , a 75 - footstone wall – back mete garden , and a terrace slope . We are in zone 3–4 , with somemicroclimatesthat have stick out Zone 5 plants .

This weeping cherry red ( Prunushybrid , Zones 5–9 ) is one of the plants list as being only stout to Zone 5 that flourish in this garden thanks to arrangement in sheltered microclimates . Below , carpeting ofcreeping phlox(Phloxsubulata , Zones 3–9 ) fulfil the garden with color . This phlox isnativeto eastern and central North America , and though not common in the natural state , it is a wonderful addition to gardens , thriving especially in well - drained soils .

Theperennial borderis backed by a beautiful stone wall . It ’s hard to imagine a New England garden without a stone wall of some kind .

A pinkish althea ( Alcearosea , Zones 2–9 ) is just coming into bloom . Hollyhocks are classiccottage - gardenplants but are not as usually seen in gardens today . Most variety arebiennialsor shortly - lived perennials and are normally bestgrown from seed . As long as you do n’t pose down too thick-skulled a layer of mulch in your garden , they will unremarkably ego - sow so that you have some every year .

cringe phlox in the foreground echoes extra planting visible in the background , which ties the whole garden together . Dense plantings cover every inch of the ground with foliage , giving a lush , full sense to the garden and making it much arduous forweedsto get a toehold .

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