Havenwood August Garden Tour

Late Summer: Anemone, Hydrangea and Phlox

Phlox ‘Jeana’ joining the parade of mauve flowers in the Cottage Garden this month.

Welcome to Havenwood in August!

It has been a warm summer here in zone 5/6 in northwestern Pennsylvania, but we are enjoying a bit of cooler weather this week. I have needed a warm sweatshirt at the end of the day more than once, so it is feeling decidedly autumnal compared to the past few months.

I will take you on a quick walk around some of the garden rooms in our place to show you the best of the season so far!

The Cottage Garden

The Cottage Garden is awash with pinks and mauves this month as the Japanese Anemone and Joe Pye Weed take over the show. Geranium ‘Rozanne’ is filling in the low ground, and there are a few hits of yellow and white to refresh it a bit too.

Read all about the Cottage Garden through the seasons here.

The Cottage Garden is near what was the proper front yard of our house. It is now four large mixed border beds that keep changing through the seasons. This is the left view from the main path that runs east/west.

To the right of the main path, looking towards the yew arch and the Pergola Walk on the downhill side.

Mauve madness in the Cottage Garden: an Anemone japonica seedling that came up in the pea gravel path; Allium 'Millennium'; Geranium 'Rozanne'; Pink Penstemon; Echinacea and Phlox; Phlox 'Jeana'

Euphorbia donnii is blooming now, possibly because it went in this spring. I would expect it to bloom earlier next year.

Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) needs to be pulled out before it reseeds everywhere but it makes for a nice lift to the August garden. Here it is with purple Penstemon foliage.

Birch Walk

Shasta daisies have filled out well in the perennial meadow beds in the Birch Walk, with the flowers continuing to come. I deadhead some of the older flowers in August so that the newer ones shine through.

I wrote about how to make your own Birch Walk here.

Shasta daisies in the evening sun coming through the yew arch that separates the Birch Walk from the Cottage Garden.

Hot Border & Parterre

When you pass through the Trellis Wall, the Hot Border fills both sides of the next room with a Boxwood parterre in the middle. I just planted the eastern border with divisions from the western border last autumn but they have done really well this year! I have hardly supplemented their water and yet they have thrived in this hot weather.

There are some lovely photos of this garden from my July tour.

Ligularia ‘Britt-Marie Crawford’ seem to really like the heat this year. Here it is blooming away in the western border with Bronze Fennel, Panicum ‘Cheyenne Sky’ and Hypericum ‘Hidcote’.

Bronze fennel and Hydrangea ‘Vanilla Strawberry’

The reds Echinacea in the Hot Border this month; a trim on the Box Parterre; Orange Heliopsis 'Summer Eclipse' going into the western border.

Fruit Tunnel

Our Pear and Cherry fruit tunnel had it’s July training done a few weeks ago, and it is laden with fruit that will be soon ready for harvest. The area is surrounded with blooming Hydrangea ‘Vanilla Strawberry’ this month on the north end up to the Hot Border and the south steps down to the lawn. More on our fruit tunnel here.

Hydrangea ‘Vanilla Strawberry’ near both sets of stairs at either end of the Fruit Tunnel. We keep finding pears that the chipmunks have already been enjoying lying about.

Hydrangea ‘Vanilla Strawberry’ near the northern set of steps down to the lawn.

Ruin

This area is where our old garage was taken down from the basement floor of the house. It is the newest garden, so still very much in progress but I am beginning to find the plants that work well in this very tricky spot. It has steeply sloped sides, one facing east and one west. There is a long channel of small bogs at the bottom of each sloped side, and a pea gravel path running up the middle to the basement door. It is full of complexity, and there are a few plants that I have not been successful with anywhere else that have been here for a few years, such as silvery Artemesia, Russian Sage and some small Dianthus.

Pots of Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost' that I have been overwintering for several years in the entry to the Ruin Garden this month; golden-leaf Persicaria in the bog of the Ruin

Entry Garden

Bedding plants fill out the spaces in the Boxwood-lined beds of the Entry Garden, the first that you will see when you pull into Havenwood near the driveway.

Angelonia, Petunias and Euphorbias in the Entry beds this month, along with some hardy annuals seeds that are just starting to get going.

Moss Walk

Rosa ‘Kew Gardens’ re-blooming near the Moss Walk this August after it’s beetle cut back in July.

The Long Border

A few flowers in the Long Border this month: Echinacea, Plume Poppy (Macleaya cordata), and loads of buds on Mohr's Rosinweed (Silphium mohrii)

A Clematis glowing in the sunset on the Kitchen Garden fence this week.

Thanks for stopping by Havenwood for a walk around!

This is link to Carol for the August Garden Blogger Bloom day, so take a look at all of the lovely gardens around the country!

Love to hear about your garden—where it is & what you are growing this month!

Related posts:

Havenwood July Garden Tour

Havenwood June Garden Tour

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