Today we’re heading to Arrington, Tennessee, to visit Laurel Nash Prothro’s garden. Greetings! I just wanted to send a few highlights from my gardening year 2018, and I am excited to send you progress pics on an interesting landscape undertaking—think wine villa but in Tennessee! I’m a jewelry designer and silversmith working also as a garden and container designer. I’m also on the board of the Williamson County, Tennessee, Master Gardeners. Happy gardening 2019! Check out that view! Who knew Tennessee was so ridiculously beautiful? It looks like a scene out of a classic landscape painting. Grapes! Destined, I take it, to become wine. Wine grapes are being grown in more and more different places in the United States. They’re not just for California anymore. When the surrounding landscape is this beautiful, make it part of the garden! This red rose on a fence is just an accent to the dramatic clouds and beautiful scenery beyond. A beautiful container, with perennials such as the hosta in the back, creeping jenny ( Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ Zones 3–9 ) trailing over the edges, and a bright annual impatiens ( Impatiens hybrid) to add flower power. Perennials can stay in containers from year to year, or be planted out elsewhere in the garden in the fall. Hard at work, with plants heading off to their new homes. A rustic, informal garden space, with bright flowers from a daylily ( Hemerocallis hybrid) and coneflower ( Echinacea hybrid). A gardenia ( Gardenia sp., Zones 8–11) in full bloom, surely making the entire space smell like heaven. Elephant ears ( Colocasia gigantea, Zones 8–10 or as an annual) are usually grown for their absurdly huge leaves, which bring a tropical look to the garden. If they’re happy, they’ll also produce these unusually shaped white flowers for added interest. Have a garden you’d like to share? Have photos to share? We’d love to see your garden, a particular collection of plants you love, or a wonderful garden you had the chance to visit! To submit, send 5-10 photos to GPOD@finegardening.com along with some information about the plants in the pictures and where you took the photos. We’d love to hear where you are located, how long you’ve been gardening, successes you are proud of, failures you learned from, hopes for the future, favorite plants, or funny stories from your garden. If you want to send photos in separate emails to the GPOD email box that is just fine. Have a mobile phone? Tag your photos on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with #FineGardening! You don’t have to be a professional garden photographer – check out our garden photography tips ! Do you receive the GPOD by email yet? Sign up here. Get our latest tips, how-to articles, and instructional videos sent to your inbox.
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