Beth Reis's Garden
Granby, Connecticut
A Bit of Family History
The blue lupine are in the backyard garden with the blueshed in the background. If you zoom in, you can see the leaves, but they aren't in bloom. I collected those seeds along the Rails to Trails bike path. They grow there abundantly!
All of the other native plants I have photos, but not digital. The spiderwort is very happy in my shade garden along with hosta, ferns and Forget-me-Nots. My foamflower is in two other shade gardens with ferns, coralbells, astilbe, and bleeding hearts. Another native plant I had was New England Asters. I would love to get more of them!
I have acquired most of my perennials, traditional and native from friends and our town's Sow and Reap Garden Club's spring sale. A nice thing about planting native plants is if you lose one, most likely someone can replace it for you from their garden.
Beth Reis