We gathered in Finksburg to tour Rick’s 1/2 acre garden. Tucked into a suburban neighborhood, Rick has created a series of garden rooms populated mostly with plants preferring various degrees of shade. As a plant collector, he has many cultivars of his preferred plants. He does much of his own plant propagation to stock his garden spaces and showed us some of the lantana he had started and bedded out along the front walkway.
A particularly lovely area was near the “moon gate” between the front and backyards. Rick plants his areas densely with layers of trees, shrubs, perennials and groundcovers. He does a good job coordinating adjacent leaf and bloom colors to paint a pleasing picture. The lacecap hydrangeas were in bloom during our tour, sprinkling delicate blues and purples throughout the gate garden area.
In the backyard there are deeper shade areas with ferns and hostas, i
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- Propagated plants
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- Rick also sells some of his plants
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- Senna, referred to as Popcorn Plant.
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- Front yard
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- Rounded bed in front
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- Smoke tree
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- Rick near moon gate
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- Some of the touring group
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- Barb near a hydrangea
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- This area has lots of hydrangeas
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- Oakleaf hydrangea
n sunnier areas vegetable garden and a section for sun loving plants near a water garden with koi. Rick likes to put statuary, wind chimes and garden art in various places along with container plantings.
We ended the tour under umbrellas as the cloudiness turned to sprinkles.
