18 Avon Road, Cape Elizabeth
History: Priscilla has created many garden spaces on the property since the house was built in 1989. The newest gardens include a “secret garden” enclosed within a gated privet hedge and a fenced vegetable garden with raised beds.
Themes: A whimsical woodland cottage garden with familiar favorites like peonies, daisies, and day lilies as well as a variety of shrubs and naturalistic plantings.
Features:
- Woodland setting with tall trees
- Secret garden with a water feature
- New raised garden beds
- Whimsical art pieces
- Paths lined with bricks and pavers (courtesy of the Cape Elizabeth Transfer Station)
- Bird feeders
In Bloom:
- Swamp/rose milkweed
- Borage
- Smooth hydrangea “Annabelle’
- Mountain hydrangea “Bluebird,’ ‘Tuff Stuff,’ and ‘Tiny Tuff Stuff’
- Lamb’s-ear
- Mexican sunflower
- Coppertips (Crocosmia sp.)
- Cosmos
- Rose campion
- Henry’s lily (Lilium henryi)
- Bush clematis
- Henryi clematis
- Astilbe
- Lavender
- Scarlet runner bean
- Black cohosh
- Zinnia
- Globe thistle
- Tall verbena (Verbena bonariensis)
- Drumstick allium