My name is Teresa Cody. I live in the mountains of North Carolina. When I first started gardening I didn’t know a perennial from an annual. I just knew I loved flowers and wanted to learn all I could. My garden is where I can escape for 15 minutes or six hours. It’s my happy place.
Teresa clearly knows an annual from a perennial now. This garden is just packed to the brim with flowers. And the amazing mountain views aren’t hurting either!
These dahlias (Dahlia variabilis, Zones 8–10 or as tender bulbs) have been grown to perfection and carefully staked to allow the tall, heavy flowers to show off.
A brick retaining wall is a perfect spot to display fall pumpkins and mums, under a big paperbark maple (Acer griseum, Zones 4–8), which has beautiful bark all year and will turn spectacular colors come fall.
Three bumblebees are pollinating this dahlia bloom! Dahlias can be great pollinator plants, especially the simple flower forms like these that produce more pollen than the fully double ones.
Blue hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla, Zones 5–9) look all the bluer for a backdrop of yellow creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’, Zones 3–9).
A single Oriental poppy (Papaver orientalis, Zones 5–9) grows out of a carpet of creeping Jenny.
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