Loudoun County Master Gardeners

Wedding Garden                                                                                                      Back

Located closest to the Ida Lee gazebo, the wedding garden often overlooks wedding ceremonies and can be used as a setting for photographs. This is our newest garden.  A design competition produced four strong entries.  The garden design was awarded to Jill Bitzer, Master Gardener Volunteer.  Her design unified the south-end gardens with hardscape and beautiful flowers. 

Photo May 19, 2007

Wedding Garden Plant List:
1. Boxwood Buxus suffrutucosa 'Dee Runk'  11. Ornamental Onion Allium 21. Dwarf Fountain Grass Pennisetum
2. Sweet William Dianthus 'Bath's Pink' 12. Sage Salvia nemorosa 'May Night' 22. Black Eyed Susan Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'
3. Russian Sage Perovskia 13. Knock Out Roses Rosa 'Radrazz'  23. Catmint Nepeta 'Walkers Low'
4. Candy Tuft Iberis umbellata 14. Catmint Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' 24. Urn: Purple Fountain Grass Pennisetum Rubrum
5. Variegated Silver Grass Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning Light' 15. Service Berry Trees Amelanchier 'Autumn Brilliance' 24. Urn: Coleus Coleus 'Kong'
6. Spirea Spiraea 16. Lamb's Ear Stachys byzantina 'Helene Von Stein' 24: Urn: Salvia Salvia guaranitica 'Black & Blue' 
7. Joe-Pye Weed Eupatorium spp. 17. Lavender Lavandula 'Grosso' 24. Urn: Sweet potato vine Ipomoea spp. 'Margarita'
8. Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea 18. Tickseed Coreopsis 24. Urn: Petunia Petunia
9. Common Bluebeard Caryopteris 19. Daffodil Narcissus 25. Creeping Jenny Lysimachia nummularia
10. Weigelia Weigela florida 'Wine & Roses' 20. Stonecrop Sedum 'Autumn Joy' 25. Verbena Verbena canadensis 'Homestead Purple'

 

Jill Bitzer planting the new urn. The urn on July 1, 2007.

View of the east side with candy tuft, wine colored weigelia, purple allium bulbs and knock out roses. 

Spirea plant in full bloom August 2008

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