More Time With the Color Green

revisiting a calm, beautifully designed garden

We ’re back for a 2nd day in Ruth Kenworthy Ecker ’s beautiful garden in Wellesley , Massachusetts , enjoy her subtle garden design style with its emphasis on shades of viridity .

A farsighted bed observe the full diverseness of the color leafy vegetable . bloom may come and go , but this light-green masterpiece will look terrific all season long .

Ornamental onions ( Alliumsp . ) after the flowers have pass off are still beautiful . Here the developing semen heads look like pieces of abstractionist modern carving and bring still more diversity of green to the garden .

Sometimes the footling details that you ca n’t plan or create are the best , such as this opening at the base of a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that looks like it is the front door for some fairy or gnome .

The garden in full summertime glory , loaded down with bloom for the pleasance of gardener and pollinator likewise .

Usually leaves are green , and flowers convey the other colors , but this planting turns the common direction of garden backwards . Here we have green flowers on a old maid flower ( Zinnia elegans , yearly ) showing off against a backdrop of promising , blood-red - leaved flame nettle .

One last view of this beautiful garden . May we all have a spot as beautiful and peaceful as this to savor !

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