Rethinking a Mature Garden - Tour and Interview with the Designer

Author Laura Trowbridge got readers thinking about how to use annuals in Fine Gardening Issue 177, then she showed us how to make changes as a garden matures in issue 210. After a photo shoot for her most recent article, she joined FG staff in her garden to talk about some of the big changes she made over the past year.
Learn more about this garden here: www.finegardening.com/article...

[@enatp6448]

The height of the mature trees was beautiful and I'm sure they served a wonderful perching point for wildlife. It is a beautiful garden with low grow but I have a preference for the taller structures that were there

[@bellarosa009]

Can you share what is the tall burgundy plant?

[@thegonzalezs4953]

Caster bean

[@joannemurphy7407]

Looks like Ricinus communis 'New Zealand Purple'

[@cindyrae2605]

What a shame.