Bitterroot Secret Garden Tour: Rural Garden on a Montana Ranch

Our final stop on the Bitterroot Secret Garden Tour takes us to a rural landscape with award-winning design

Happy Friday GPODers !

Today we ’re wrapping up our incredible calendar week on the 2024Bitterroot Secret Garden Tour ™ . I need to start by giving a full-grown shout out and give thanks you to Kielian DeWitt for offer to deal this unbelievable hitch with us , and for sending over all of the beautiful photos and insightful information on the gardens . fitly , we ’re wrapping up the hebdomad in her amazing abode garden .

But before we dive into Kielian and her magical garden , I desire to share a bit more data about the enlistment itself and the shock it has had on the Bitterroot Valley community of interests . Kielian provide some great highlights that put into linear perspective how impactful it can be to gain the community around gardens . In the preceding ten long time they have :

Hopefully this week has advance you to seek out a local garden tour . If there are n’t any currently around you , maybe get some plant life - bang friends together and encourage each other to share your gardens more often … you really do n’t know what a lowly idea can deform into when the community comes together . But enough from me , let ’s dive into Kielian ’s garden :

As a young girl in Colorado , Kielian remembers her female parent and grandmother laugh in delight at seeing the warm young shoots of natural spring , listen to them wonder at summertime ’s fierce growth and communion in the experience and delight of fall ’s freehanded harvest . From those earliest remembering her pastime farm into a lifetime of horticulture plan , weed - pull and the dear of garden artistry . Kielian has been honored 3 times over several years in 2 major gardening mag and was awarded winner of the 2018 Gardenista Amateur Garden of the Year for her entryway , “ Floral Serendipity in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana . ” Husband , Chuck , has always been a unforced confederate in charge of weeds , watering and ( hem ) specify garden ‘ expansion . ’

Their amazing property includes extended bed of flowers surrounding the house , incorporate a multitude of flowers , shrub and vines ( as many as she can further to thrive in our Montana climate ) and are complement by established and colorful pocket garden of herbaceous plant and vegetables , a boneyard , pumphouse and Harry Potter sphere ( where anything black , white or weird is advance to grow ) . The Meandering Meadow , a realistic garden surrounding the pond , portray a valiant but stunningly beautiful fight against weeds , gophers and voles .

Formerly , the Dewitts did 90 % of the work in their gardens but currently have the supporter of good friends Charlene and Sarah , and Garett who provides the heavy lifting and irrigation insightfulness .

pinkish rosebush , C - in - summer ground cover(Cerastiumtomentosum , Zones 3–7),astilbeand a tardily - blossom peony provide color and drama to the meandering track .

The Greenhouse patio holds court to a persimmon tree ( a fig , dragonfruit , and leechee tree diagram are around the corner ) and pots abound with annuals . Clematis , lupin , favorable oregano(Origanum vulgare‘Aureum ’ , Zones 5–9)andpotentillafill in the background .

A wildflower hayfield on the edge of the pool accents a arresting sentiment of the Bitterroot Mountain range .

Veronica , calendula , phlox , hosta , dianthus , barberry , Double Play ® Gold spirea(Spiraeajaponica‘Yan ’ , zone 3–8),Bobo ® hydrangeas(Hydrangea paniculata‘ILVOBO ’ , Zones 3–8),foxglove , Tiger eye ® sumac(Rhus typhina‘Bailtiger ’ , Zones 3–8),and two clematis(Clematis‘Jackmanii ’ , Zones 4–10and an unidentified pinkish diversity ) spill over one another .

‘ Fascination ’ Culver ’s root(Veronicastrumvirginicum‘Fascination ’ , Zones 3–8)lines the newly planted thyme lawn .

Hollyhocks , masterwort(Astrantiamajor , Zones 4–7),echinacea , delphinium , monkshood(Aconitumnapellus , Zones 3–8),a redtwig dogwood(Cornussericea , Zones 2–7)trimmed into a tree and black snakeroot also cognize as black cohosh(Actaearacemosa , zona 3–8)create a coloured upright wall in front of the greenhouse .

Hollyhock , phlox , hydrangea , foxglove , delphinium and ‘ Chardonnay Pearls ’ deutzia(Deutziagracilis‘Duncan ’ , Zones 5–8)in the front seam .

Absolutely stunning , Kielian — and one final thank you for deal these garden ! If you missed any of the beautiful garden we toured this workweek , check them out below :

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