Hannah’s Minnesota Garden – FineGardening

My identify is Hannah and I am a gardener in Zone 4 in southeastern Minnesota. I’ve a full solar backyard that I began in 2017 after we constructed our home on our 30 acre farm. I like beginning all my annuals and most perennials from seed in our free home. It saves cash and permits me to plant high-impact crops. Winters are lengthy however nice for backyard planning. These photographs are from the spring of final yr.

I like planting bulbs as a result of they’re so fantastic to stay up for.

A lot cheerful colour of sunshine bulbs!

Allium ‘Purple Really feel’ (Zones 3–9)

mint (Nepeta × faassenii, Zones 3–8), with a plum tree in bloom behind

i’ve serviceberry (Amalanchier sp., Zone 4 – 8), and I like the look of the trunks with crops below them.

birch (black birch, Zones 4–9) with tulips (Tulip hybrid, Zones 3–8)

Bleeding coronary heart (Dicentra spectabilis, Zones 2–8) with Virginia hyacinths (Mertensia virginica, Zones 3–8) behind him

alpine woman’s cloak (Alchemilla alpine, Zones 4–7) is smaller than the most typical Alchemilla mollis (Zones 3–8) and has serrated leaves. He’s pictured right here with ‘Elijah Blue’ fescue (glauca fescue ‘Elijah Blue’, Zones 4–8).

penstemon digitalis ‘Huskers Purple’ (Zones 3-8) subsequent to a feathered reed grass (Calamagrostis × acutiflora, Zones 5–8)

If you wish to see extra of this backyard, take a look at the final time Hannah shared with us on GPOD (Hannah’s Flower Backyard), in addition to her Instagram: @hannahs_garden_journal

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