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A water feature lends still another element to it all.
So does yard art, including benches to sit upon, an Alexander Calder inspired sculpture high atop a top and two wash pots from each one’s family.
Plants range from the unusual — a purple Lady Banksia — to tradiGarden selections include plants they have bought, passalongs from friends and things dug up from family country places.
Through the years, they’ve created practical paths with an artistic flair of old brick, chipped rock and pine bark which meander through the garden.
Structures include a country outhouse-inspired building with a sliver of a moon on the door piece which they use for a tool shed.
Although roses are the hallmark of this garden, there are lace cap hydrangea, bridal wreath, day lilies, herbs, clematis, ferns and sassafras.
There are tallow, sweet gum, oak and mayhaw and perhaps the largest Bradford pear tree you have ever seen.
“And, here is an ornamental cherry tree. It has the prettiest blooms I have ever seen,” Jimmy said as he showed a visitor his yard.
Two young cedar trees are from the home place of her great-grandparents, named after them — William R. and Pennie.
The Lynns’ landscape changed over the past year in two major ways.
When two huge pines — one 85-feet tall — died and were cut down, a shade garden became a sunny one where they have added roses and sweet olive to the existing azalea bush.
“The English dogwood was my mother’s,” Jimmy said.
Where a swimming pool once stood they positioned an herb area, including parsley, Swiss chard, parsley.
There are many interesting elements to this landscape.
As you walk the yard, don’t miss:
An exquisite Japanese maple which shades the entrance walk and looks over the nandina bushes.
A vitex allee leads to the vegetable garden’s eggplant, tomato and squash plants.
A variety of interesting fruit trees which include a pomegranate in full bloom, blueberry bushes laden with fruit and a peach tree.
A 6-foot clematis just beyond the house’s deck.
A trio of sculptural birdhouses of different heights, a gift of a neighbor, will be teamed with hostas.
The triangular-shaped trellis towers over a deck and is filled with lush blossoms of Seven Sisters roses.
The iron spider web interwoven with wisteria and purchased locally is tucked near the back fence, a homage to Linda’s maiden name, Webb.
The stand of native iris near the pond came from the home of Jimmy’s mother.
The unusual Jewels of Opa they spotted at Rose Emporium, Brenham, Texas, years ago.
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