It’s really summer here. As I walked the garden this morning, I was remembering what things looked like earlier in the summer and spring. The Entry Garden is one of the areas I helped transition from the Spring to Summer display with Jonathan Wright, the gardener in charge of that area. When the spring blooms began to lose their excitement in the first week of June, we spent two days ripping them all out and planting the tropicals. This shows a bit of that transformation.

In the spring mix:

• mustards
• snapdragons
• columbines
• foxglove
• bronze fennel
• blue fescue
• purple kale
• stock
• Corydalis
• daffodils
• Ranunculus
• Ornithogalum

The summer mix:

• bananas (Musa spp.)
• bromeliads
• pineapples
• elephant ears (Colocasia)
• canna lilies
• cape fuchsia (Phygelius aequalis ‘Purple Prince’)
• and more!