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Butterfly Garden

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English Garden

Pollinator Garden

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Lawn

Recreational Play Area

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Accent

Border

Flowering Tree

Foundation Planting

Mass Planting

Screen/Privacy

Small groups

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Bats

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Frogs

Hummingbirds

Moths

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Predatory Insects

Reptiles

Small Mammals

Songbirds

Specialized Bees

Storage Cottage

Storage cottage dressed for holidays

Winter

Storage cottage dressed for the holidays Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Hydrangea paniculata Panicle Hydrangea Peegee Hydrangea Flower Form
Nandina domestica Chinese Sacred Bamboo Heavenly Bamboo Nandina Growing Form
Thuja occidentalis American Arborvitae Eastern White-Cedar Northern White-Cedar Thuja occidentalis
Description

We all need a place to store our gardening supplies and tools but how many of us have a storage unit that looks like this beauty.  This diminutive building's brightly colored doors echo the color of the roses planted in the foreground make it a delightful accent to the landscape.

Storage cottage dressed for holidays

Winter

Storage cottage dressed for the holidays Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Hydrangea paniculata Panicle Hydrangea Peegee Hydrangea Flower Form
Nandina domestica Chinese Sacred Bamboo Heavenly Bamboo Nandina Growing Form
Thuja occidentalis American Arborvitae Eastern White-Cedar Northern White-Cedar Thuja occidentalis
Storage cottage

Summer

Storage Cottage Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Juniperus chinensis 'Hetzii Glauca' Hetz Blue Juniper Juniperus chinensis 'Hetzii Glauca'
Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum 'Variegatum' Angled Solomon's Seal Fragrant Solomon's Seal Japanese Solomon Seal Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’ in spring/summer
Silene coronaria Bloody William Catch Fly Dusty-Miller Flower
Early spring blooms

Spring

Cottage flanked by DeGroot’s Spire Arborvitae Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Cercis canadensis American Judas Tree American Redbud Eastern Redbud tree form with pink blooms
Cornus florida Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
Thuja occidentalis American Arborvitae Eastern White-Cedar Northern White-Cedar Thuja occidentalis
Storage cottage dressed for holidays

Winter

Storage cottage dressed for the holidays Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Hydrangea paniculata Panicle Hydrangea Peegee Hydrangea Flower Form
Nandina domestica Chinese Sacred Bamboo Heavenly Bamboo Nandina Growing Form
Thuja occidentalis American Arborvitae Eastern White-Cedar Northern White-Cedar Thuja occidentalis
Storage cottage

Summer

Storage Cottage Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Juniperus chinensis 'Hetzii Glauca' Hetz Blue Juniper Juniperus chinensis 'Hetzii Glauca'
Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum 'Variegatum' Angled Solomon's Seal Fragrant Solomon's Seal Japanese Solomon Seal Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’ in spring/summer
Silene coronaria Bloody William Catch Fly Dusty-Miller Flower
Early spring blooms

Spring

Cottage flanked by DeGroot’s Spire Arborvitae Garden age: 12 years Kathy Sill CC BY 4.0
Plants in this photo:Plants in this photo
Cercis canadensis American Judas Tree American Redbud Eastern Redbud tree form with pink blooms
Cornus florida Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
Thuja occidentalis American Arborvitae Eastern White-Cedar Northern White-Cedar Thuja occidentalis