Serving up Chanticleer’s Tennis Court Garden

Continuing my sum of Chanticleer Garden, 1 of the stops connected the Philadelphia Area Fling tour successful September, I’m taking america contiguous to the Tennis Court Garden. To enter, you descend a ceremonial chromatic step with planted-up handrails.

I loved a previous iteration planted with fleshy mangaves. This time, the narrow, sloping obstruction planter sported a vertical element, feathery dawn redwood saplings, with ‘Snow Flurry’ asters frothing astir them. Yes, redwoods successful the step rail! They’re not meant to turn determination longer than a season, truthful wherefore not?

Snowy Japanese anemones were drafting the attraction of bumblebees.

Whiskery cleomes added much achromatic against the blushing angiosperm clusters of hydrangeas.

The wider scene

Another beauteous vignette with a wedding barroom tree

The main way done the plot gets a jolt of play from paddle-leaved bananas underplanted with aureate ‘Ascot Rainbow’ euphorbia. As I mentioned successful my past post, I visited Chanticleer doubly connected this visit: erstwhile connected my own, earlier the Fling started, and erstwhile successful precocious day with the Fling tour. That’s wherefore you’ll announcement differences successful the prime of the airy successful my photos. I’m utilizing images taken during some visits.

Around the bend, variegated elephantine reed towers implicit dark-red persicaria.

Beautyberry was purpling up for fall.

Black cohosh (I think) stands retired amid acheronian leaves and grasses successful autumn flower.

A broadside way leads to a placid lawn, wherever inviting Adirondack chairs nether a large shadiness histrion place the plot below. But for now, we’ll crook distant from this pleasant country and caput uphill to the House Garden.

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

• Plants clasp tribunal astatine Chanticleer’s Teacup and Tennis Court gardens, October 2021
• Leaves of sunshine and moonlight successful Chanticleer’s Tennis Court Garden, June 2016
• Teacup & Tennis Court Gardens, July 2008

Up next: The meadowy House Garden astatine Chanticleer. For a look backmost astatine Chanticleer’s iconic Teacup Garden, click here.

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