Ms. Strahan, a retired attorney, learned what she knows about gardening in Master Gardener classes and classes at Longwood Gardens and by trial and error. But she also has the help of Michael Rosendale, who teaches horticulture at Community College of Baltimore County-Dundalk.

In Susan's post, there is a link to a much longer story about this garden, and the travels that have informed it.

And Susan also paid a photographic visit to Cylburn Arboretum, and shares some lovely September pictures.