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Philippa Ferridge: ‘A garden I started this year solely in pots and containers on my driveway, in the hope of evading the rabbits. I call it my flower yard. I grow salvia for the hummingbirds and lemon verbena, dahlias, sweet peas, Persian shield, nasturtium - all for cutting. The hydrangea backdrop has been spectacular this year!’ COURTESY PHOTO/PHILIPPA FERRIDGE

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It’s July and the gardens around Winchester are in full bloom. We asked you to send us photos of whatever is growing in your garden and you sent us quite a few.

If you missed out, you can still send us a photo. Send ONE photo as an attachment to editor@winchesternews.org and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line.  Tell us what it is, for those of us who don’t know their peas from their petunias!

Alison Swallow - Bumblebee on milkweed flower
Susan Saidman — The wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) is finally starting to bloom and is beautiful next to the yellow of the black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta).
August Westner — The leeks are bountiful in the garden!
Charlene Band — Trumpet lilies 
Mary Courville — hydrangeas
Joy Cass — A raspberry patch in the traffic circle on Edgehill Road. She has surrounded the raspberries with pollinator friendly blossoms, so it’s always humming with bees!
Ruth Trimarchi — Lovage! Not a particularly eye-catching plant, but Ruth says this delicious herb was given to her by her good friend August Westner this year. It has taken off in her community garden plot and is already providing robust quantities for soups and stir-fries.
Rachna Jhasent us this photo of these gorgeous pink flowers.
Beth Lepore — This is what is in Beth’s container garden...one of three pots of mint. She says the offshoots of this plant have been in her family since the 1950s when her grandparents brought their mint with them from Texas as they moved to New Jersey. ‘I eat some of it but mostly I just grow it because it’s a family tradition!’ she says.
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