Goodbye 2016!

Some of my favorite shots from this year, clockwise from top left: Clematis 'Etoile Violette' on the lamp post, The Knot Garden, Agastache near the blue garden door, The Postman's gate into the Birch Walk, Centurea, The Rose garden at sunset, Hardy Gladiolus byzantine, Birch Walk with flowering mustard in late spring. Center: David Austin Rose.

Thank you, friends, for joining me in my garden this year! 

Happy New Year to you! 

~Julie 

Merry Christmas!

The Garden door dressed for Christmas

 "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, 

and the government will be on his shoulders. 

And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, 

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Isaiah 9:6

Winter solstice

Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger, lifting to the light.

There is still hope growing, even on this day, the shortest day of the year...

December 2016 ~ GBBD at Havenwood

English holly for a proper English garden, even in PA ;)

Welcome to December in my Pennsylvania garden! 

The snow has fallen on Havenwood and all that was brown is now fresh & clean again in time for Christmas. We are celebrating our third anniversary of being in our beloved garden, with most of it being just 1-2 years old. I love the kind of garden that most Americans would consider an English-look, though in reality it is really a combination of the formal hedges from the Italians, French styling in materials and colors, and an English-style planting.

Enjoy your look around!