Making beauty in dry, sandy soil
Today we ’re visiting the garden of husband and wife Tim Boland ( a botanist ) and Laura Coit ( a designer ) .
Here are some pictures of our home garden on Martha ’s Vineyard , Massachusetts . It is adrought - tolerantgarden amid an oak tree woods where thesoil lacks organic issue . We garden on composted grease built up over 16 twelvemonth . We have selected plant for their power to grow in the ruffianly conditions of sandy soil andintense island winds . The excogitation is a advanced take on acottage garden , with an ecologic approach to plant selection . As a issue , several island seeded player - get natives are used in combination with foreign-born but highly adaptable perennial and grasses .
Pictured here , and capturing the previous - daytime light , is the crushed rock course entry to our dwelling . It is flanked byNassella tenuissima(Zones 5–10),Baptisiatinctoria(Zones 3–9),Aquilegiacanadensis(Zones 3–8),Stachys‘Helene von Stein ’ ( Zones 4–8),Symphyotrichum oblongifolium‘October Skies ’ ( Zones 3–8 ) , and a liberal dosage of island - grownAsclepiastuberosa(Zones 4–10 ) .
A Danaus plexippus butterfly stroke caterpillar munches onAsclepias incarnata(Zones 3–8 ) which , despite its common name of swampmilkweed , is felicitous in wet or drier grease .
Butterfly weed(Asclepias tuberosa)of course is a cracking host flora for monarch butterflies , but it is also just incredibly beautiful .
Butterfly weed and hybrid coneflowers(Echinaceahybrids , Zones 5–9 ) make a fiery combination of colors and great food for aboriginal insects .
This compounding of mountain mint(Pycnanthemumsp . , Zones 4–8 ) back by amsonia(Amsoniahubrichtii , Zone 5 – 8) looks great now and will only get better in the crepuscule as the amsonia takes on its wonderful yellowfall coloring material .
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