Jenny Rose Carey’s charming Northview Garden, part 1

It was a soggy late-September midday astatine the Philadelphia Area Fling erstwhile we visited writer and horticulturist Jenny Rose Carey‘s garden, Northview Garden, successful Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. My autobus of 50 (garden bloggers, Instagrammers, and YouTubers) was invited archetypal to person a sit-down luncheon successful the carriage location earlier mounting retired to research the 4-1/2-acre garden.

Herb Garden

I was smitten by Jenny’s colorful, playful garden, wherever I wandered for an hr and inactive managed to miss an full conception down her house. Dang it — adjacent time! But I recovered truthful overmuch to enchant maine elsewhere that I didn’t recognize I was overlooking anything.

Near the house, a agelong consecutive way runs done a fenced herb garden. In the center, 4 columnar evergreens situation a mossy array with a greenish umbrella for sunnier days.

Castor bean’s starfish-shaped leaves

Mossy chairs tucked into the plot

A rustic gross has a motion proclaiming Jenny’s Garden…

…and a trowel propulsion handle. Such details are amusive to discover.

Pond Garden

After the herb garden, I recovered myself successful a sunny (well, if not rainy), unfastened abstraction acceptable up for a crowd, with respective yellowish tables and chairs connected a chromatic patio…

…overlooking a pond and blue-trimmed plot shed.

A waterfall trickles into the pond from a rocky support half-hidden by a weeping conifer.

A charming view

“Frog parking only. All others volition beryllium toad,” reads a punny sign.

It was a bully time for froggy fun.

Potted pansies successful terracotta pots find a sympatico companion successful a terracotta rooster.

The wide view

Goldenrod, rudbeckia, and asters were successful afloat angiosperm successful Jenny’s aboriginal autumn garden.

Rose Cottage plot shed

The plot shed, which Jenny calls Rose Cottage, is acold much than a workaday shed…

…starting with its porch, wherever hanging conical planters and different potted plants and a cushioned seat invitation you in.

Inside, it’s wide this is simply a she-shed, with comfy chairs for sitting and watching the pond plot done windows.

Green solid — are these bulb vases? — enactment the windowsill, on with dahlia posies and beauteous collected objects.

Like robust mice and rabbits

And brass and ceramic birds

And gnomes, roosters, and gourds!

Outside, a chromatic descend with a glass-bead mosaic spelling retired Northview stands acceptable for watering pots oregon washing up.

Rose Gate potting area

Behind Rose Cottage, a picket obstruction with carved and painted roses encloses a greenhouse…

…and a tidy potting country adorned with a postulation of potted plants…

…and a metallic bird’s-nest chair.

Shady path

A way shaded by gangly trees and shrubs, adorned with a copper reflector and bucket…

…leads past a postulation of fir cones…

…to chromatic gateposts.

Castle Garden

This is the Castle Garden, enclosed by a crenellated evergreen hedge…

…with a chromatic array and benches inviting you successful for a quiescent infinitesimal betwixt colorful angiosperm gardens.

A mossy arbor beckons you onward.

Cutting Garden

A fenced cutting plot of cleome, cosmos, sunflowers, black-eyed Susans, and dahlias is made much colorful with purple-painted angiosperm stakes.

A yellow-and-blue birdhouse connected axis with the way draws you forward.

White cosmos

And tons of beauteous dahlias

Blackberry lily fruits

Jenny has a knack for uncovering charming metallic plot chairs.

One much ruffled dahlia

And a bee-attracting cosmos. I person overmuch much to stock from Jenny’s garden, but it volition instrumentality different post. Stay tuned for Part 2.

Up next: Part 2 of Jenny Rose Carey’s whimsical and colorful Northview Garden. For a look backmost astatine Stoneleigh’s native-plant nationalist garden, click here.

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