Front Entrance
One of my favorite spots at Chanticleer is always the Teacup Garden, and I like that the gardeners get to change it from year to year. This fall the colors seemed sullen, in an attractive way. I was really smitten with how the raindrops beaded on the Euphorbia cotinifolia, and how the variegated Asclepias curassavica played so well with the grass, which I think was Nassella tenuissima.
Not sullen, the Cutting Garden was full of color, and being late in the season it towered over our heads.
Ruin Garden
Gravel Garden
Salvia 'Limelight'
Colchicum
Chanticleer House Garden
If you would like to see the remainder of my photos from this trip, please visit my Flickr page, and you can also see previous Chanticleer blog posts from 2016 here, and from 2011 here. Currently I am hosting my annual Winter Walk-Off, and I invite all of my fellow bloggers to participate.
I am making my first ever visit to Chanticleer this June as a prequel to Garden Bloggers Fling. I am so excited to visit a garden that's been on my punch list for years. Thanks for the beautiful photos !
ReplyDeleteMe jealous. Take LOTS of photos!
DeleteI love the idea of a fling prequel, maybe it could be called a prefling.
DeleteGorgeous! Thank you for the tour. What a great time of year to go.
ReplyDeleteThis was my second fall trip, and yes it was a good time to go. Many of their more tropical plants are still out, and have reached a good size before having to be brought in or let go.
DeleteThank you, Les! I planned to visit Chanticleer last summer while traveling to Pennsylvania, but it didn't work. Thanks to your beautiful pictures, I am enjoying this outstanding garden now. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteYou are quite welcome. I do hope you will be able to make it one day.
DeleteI was startled at first by all the foliage and color, and then realized this visit took place last October, so this is a pre-winter garden. I read it's closed till March; it would be interesting to see it's winter, bare-bones statement.
ReplyDeleteI'm enamored by the Colchicum in the grass. Do they not mow till it's done blooming?
I don't know for sure, but I think they allow the grass to grow while the Colchicum do their thing.
DeleteWonderful look at Chanticleer -- on my garden-visit bucket list!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a bucket list item!
DeleteStill on my wish list of gardens to visit. Your photos are spectacular!
ReplyDeleteThank you Phillip. It is a not-to-be-missed garden.
DeleteWow, wow, wow...I almost didn't get by the first picture as I couldn't stop looking at the detail in that fabulous container design but every one was equally stunning. I'm also visiting the garden in June with some garden friends just before the Fling. It will be my second visit. Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteYes, they know how to plant a container. It is impossible to leave Chanticleer without being inspired.
DeleteWow! Wow! The cutting garden is spectacular.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed!
DeleteWow. Eye candy indeed. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou are quite welcome.
DeleteI am a big fan of Chanticleer, too, Les. It is a very inspiring garden for many reasons: innovative design, extraordinary plantings and exuberant creativity everywhere you go. As an aging gardener, my favorite thing about Chanticleer is that it is a terrific training ground for burgeoning horticulturists.
ReplyDeleteAs an aging gardener, I like that is easy to see nearly all of it without having to backtrack, and its beauty is a good distraction from the aches in my knee.
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