Phillip's Garden Tour Part II

We continue our virtual tour of Phillip's Garden looking through a secret gate that separates two parts of the garden. Phillip set up his garden in the style of garden rooms. Creating garden rooms has been an important style of gardening for many years. People tend to like intimacy in a private garden and rooms help to fit the bill. That is 'Snowflake' oakleaf hydrangea to the left of the gate. What a perfect specimen of it!

This is a sunny path. If you like textures in a garden you can't beat cannas. The bold foliaged plant is cannas and they really rock a garden even without blooms.

Now this small white tree is Cornus kousa 'Wolf Eyes'. Phillip and I both grow this wonderful little tree. His is much bigger than mine, and sited very well. Look at how it lights up this corner of the garden.

This pretty leaved plant is called Plume Poppy. I am not familiar with this plant but really liked the foliage. As an interesting note when I visited the University of Tennessee at Jackson gardens last week I saw a big stand of these plume poppies. They are going on my list to try.

Remember the large rose arbor in the center of the garden? This is the walkway underneath. How cool is it? Phillp has used mondo grass to great advantage in his shady garden. Here it fills in amongst the cool stepping stones.

This picture kind of reminded me of the Gentling garden we garden bloggers were able to visit last May in Asheville North Carolina. Phillip's garden is on a hill though not a mountain, but it shared rock walls and lovely overflowing borders like the Gentling Garden that Skeeter posted on last year....

in the garden....

Friday will be the last of Phillip's Garden so stay tuned and stay cool. 

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