A happy place full of flowers

My name is Teresa Cody . I live in the mount of North Carolina . When I first started gardening I did n’t cognize aperennialfrom anannual . I just knew I bonk flowers and wanted to memorise all I could . My garden is where I can head for the hills for 15 minutes or six hr . It ’s my felicitous place .

Teresa intelligibly knows an annual from a perennial now . This garden is just carry to the brim withflowers . And the amazing plenty views are n’t bruise either !

Thesedahlias(Dahliavariabilis , Zones 8–10 or as tippy bulbs ) have been grow to perfection and carefully staked to allow the tall , heavy flowers to show off .

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A brick hold wall is a double-dyed maculation to display tumble pumpkins andmums , under a bigpaperbark maple(Acergriseum , Zones 4–8 ) , which hasbeautiful barkall yr and will reverse spectacular colors come fall .

Three bumblebees are pollenate thisdahliabloom ! Dahlias can be greatpollinator plants , especially the simple blossom forms like these that give rise more pollen than the fully threefold unity .

Bluehydrangeas(Hydrangeamacrophylla , Zones 5–9 ) look all the bluer for a backcloth of yellow fawn jenny ( Lysimachianummularia‘Aurea ’ , Zones 3–9 ) .

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A single Oriental poppy ( Papaverorientalis , Zones 5–9 ) raise out of a carpeting of creeping Jenny .

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garden in fall with mums and pumpkin

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