This year’s garden tour sponsored by the Horticultural Society of Maryland offered a glimpse of seven gardens in Baltimore County, Maryland.  The beginning of the tour led us into the woods, a canopy of trees with a brook running through the glade.  One garden had quadrants of serviceberry trees (amelanchier) in a bed of vinca.  How native plant correct, the berries to be had by the birds waiting for their intruders to depart.  The carpet of vinca, a perfect choice for the limbed up multi-stemmed amelanchiers.  Wolfgang Oehme designed a tour garden, his use of texture evident in the autumn fern beside a hardy begonia. Last was a garden sparse of plant matter except moss.  Huge boulders.  One wondercript src=”http://carlisleflowers.net/wp-content/plugins/link-to-post/tinymce/langs/en.js?ver=311″ type=”text/javascript”>ed if this outcropping of rocks under a roof of yews had been meteored down for us to contemplate the earth and the sky.  www.mdhorticulture.org

Garden of Rocks, Photo CarlisleFlowers

Amelanchiers, Photo CarlisleFlowers