Garden overview — 2025
The full yard at peak, everything filling in and looking established.
Hydrangea & allium bed — 2025 #1
The hydrangea/allium bed at peak — allium globes floating above the foliage.
Hydrangea & allium bed — 2025 #2
Second angle showing allium globes floating above the hydrangea foliage.
Mixed bed hydrangeas — 2025
Summer 2025 hydrangea reference — full bloom for comparison with this year.
Mixed perennial border — 2025
The perennial border in full summer 2025 color.
Gold Dust Aucuba & hosta border — 2025
The shady aucuba/hosta border in 2025 — reference for the shade side composition.
Grape archway — 2025
The grapevine arch in full 2025 summer canopy — showing what this year is building toward.
Japanese maple & hydrangea — 2025
The maple/hydrangea corner in full 2025 summer color.
Peach, butterfly bush & aster — 2025
The peach bed composition from late 2025 showing the full season layering.
Dwarf peach tree — 2025 summer
Full-leaf reference from last summer — useful comparison with this year's spring progression.
Rising Sun redbud — 2025 summer
The redbud in full summer leaf — gold-green gradient at its most subtle.
Grapevine close-up — 2025
Detail of the grape clusters and foliage on the arbor.
Raised veg beds — 2025
The raised beds in full production mode — tomatoes and peppers in their element.
Tomato tower bed — 2025 #1
The tomato setup in full summer swing, towers loaded with growth.
Tomato tower bed — 2025 #2
Second angle showing the full scale of the tomato operation.
Swallowtail on butterfly bush — 2025
Eastern black swallowtail visiting the Pugster butterfly bush — the garden working as pollinator habitat.
Swallowtail close-up — 2025
Detail shot of the swallowtail on the buddleia bloom.