A Thousand Shades of Green

A collector’s garden full of understated elegance.

Luke Simon shared these images of his neighbor Linda Barnhill ’s yard in East Sparta , Ohio . She is a collector of many plants , including rare fruits , but these photograph show her beautiful ornamental garden full of adorable colors and textures , often relying on tincture of green to create a beautiful tapis .

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Golden creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ Zones 4 – 8) makes a glowing carpet by Linda’s sidewalk.

Green flowering tobacco (Nicotiana langsdorfii, annual) opens its understated blooms in front of a mass of variegated yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida, annual).