Rocking a dry garden at Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden

Every clip I sojourn Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden, I get a acquainted feeling. Many plants we turn successful Central Texas look successful this Pennsylvania adust garden, and it’s amusive to spot them successful a caller context. Although the plot bristles with yuccas, agaves, and cactus and sways with grasses and airy perennials, the backdrop of gangly trees and lush gardens shows that it’s situated successful a astir un-Texas landscape.

This is Part 7 of my sojourn to Chanticleer during the Philadelphia Area Fling last September.

From the Pond Garden, a constrictive gravel way winds up a steep slope done meadowy plantings.

Looking backmost astatine the ponds below

In precocious September, the autumn perennials were successful afloat flower, alongside maples starting to turn.

Pines — not something you’d spot successful Central Texas

But Yucca rostrata? Oh yeah! How astonishing to spot it increasing connected a Pennsylvania hillside, no?

A surviving bouquet astatine my feet

A tucked-away seating country successful the Gravel Garden

View from the benches

A pruned-up agave, which has nary uncertainty been moved indoors for the winter.

Stone steps pb to a seat on 1 broadside of the hilly garden.

Beyond the bench, Minder Woods offers a shady woodland plot to explore. But let’s instrumentality successful much of the sunny Gravel Garden.

So beauteous with diaphanous grasses and bobblehead yuccas and meadowy perennials each around

A vine-shaded arbor curves on the borderline of the hillside, overlooking the ponds and different gardens.

A gangly boxed cactus stands retired amid debased flowering plants.

And mouse-eared prickly pear

Looking up to the Ruin Garden — adjacent post!

These cone-like seedpods charmed me. They look similar small cocoa roses.

Gulf muhly and eryngium gone to seed, on with sparkling achromatic flowers

Another look

Russian sage and that cactus

Beyond, I spy Chanticleer’s celebrated stone-sofa surviving room.

As I mentioned earlier successful this series, I visited Chanticleer doubly connected this trip, erstwhile earlier the Fling began and again during an day soiree Chanticleer hosted for us. Drink tables and a barroom were acceptable up conscionable beyond a chromatic armchair.

Angie Lueschen (Minnesota) recovered a comfy spot connected the chromatic sofa. Notice the chromatic distant perched connected the sofa arm.

Angie was joined by Natalie Carmolli (Michigan), Margo Rabb (Pennsylvania), and Amy Ellsworth DeWald of Decolonize the Garden (Maryland) — each caller Flingers, I believe, but Natalie. It was large to conscionable them!

Margo introduced maine to Joe Henderson, 1 of Chanticleer’s incredibly originative horticulturists.

Looming successful the background, the half-shrouded Ruin calls to you with unfastened doors and windows. Let’s research that adjacent time.

Up next: The fairy communicative Ruin Garden astatine Chanticleer. For a look backmost astatine Chanticleer’s lush Pond Garden, click here:

To work astir my past visits to Chanticleer’s Gravel Garden, travel these links:

• Gravel plot astatine Chanticleer reminds maine of Texas, October 2021
• Chanticleer rocks a Gravel Garden, June 2016
• Ruin & Gravel Garden, July 2008

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