City Gardens - beautiful, small garden in Warsaw welcomes Autumn...

Do you have spare beautiful, antique old door? If yes, you may use it as original entrance to your garden. Give me your hand and let me take you today for a walk at this charming secret garden....

As we enter this place surrounded by NOT beautiful appartment houses... we feel like taking a journey to bucolic, yet elegant, Polish countryside garden. Showy yellow tree foliage belongs to Liriodendron . I must say, that the composition of plants is not very fancy, however somebody who designed it, achieved the feeling of ulimate harmony. On the picture above you see from the left yew, juniperus on the ground, wisteria on woodden pergola, evergreen conifers and at the gate on the left Sorbus aucuparia Pendula (grafted).

Asters (!) in the pots look fresh and surprising. Look at the right upper corner - yellow and red color combination - that is painted by Autumn Fairy... you see more of it further in this post...

After entrance look at the left, you can see here the only patch of grass in entire garden. Have a look on the right - can you see that big smokebush ? It became a small tree already here.

Yucca in the front adds a lot of texture - without yucca, it would be boring corner.

If you look to the right side there is yew, juniperus horizontalis and hydrangeas.

So far I was indifferent to the beauty of small Begonia semperflorens - pink flowers on the left side - but after seeing it here I put it on my shopping list either for next year' spring or still now, to grow it indoor. Do you also like it?

We pass the entrance to the house... and pass by the porch - that narrow space is arranged in such a way, that it seems wider than in reality. Yellow leaves are at their peak now in Poland.

On our way to the back garden we pass asters in the pots...

...and go on... hedera covering the ground, hydrangeas, rhodos. That dramatic branches in front is old lilac - maybe if you keep it like this, you don't see the flowers, but you get the fragrance, shadow in the summer and picturesque dramatic look in the winter.

... oh, look back... wisteria arc, conifers, pine on the yellow background - nice?

... restaurant is waiting for the visitors....

... nature paints amazing pictures... on this wall there is two kind of ivies Parthenocissus turns red now and Wisteria keeps still green.

... look, if you have an old lilac in the garden, don't get rid of it - here is the example - looks wonderful. That old stump must be many, many years old. Maybe 50? or more? In my mom's garden there is lilac 30 years old, but it is nothing comparable in body size...

It is heavily pruned, to be kept smaller.

Summer Pelargonium looks very nice together with pumpkin...

... look - this garden is complete - water garden including big koi fish...

We came to an end of this walk... thank you... I hope you didn't get too much tired...

Have a nice weekend...