Stroll Through Beepea Gardens

Pavestone Pathway

Come take a Stroll through Beepea Gardens

Come take a stroll as we tour the garden together. Many who visit the garden have commented that it is like walking through a beautiful park.  

As you enter the garden through the gate, you step into a beautiful quite peaceful retreat, shaded by a number of native trees.  Old roses such as Marie Pavie, Cramoisi Superior and Cecile Brunner are putting out their fragrance.  There are  paved terraces and statues and arbors throughout the garden. Birdhouses are waiting for the numerous birds that visit our garden and butterflies and bumblebees are arriving. As you stroll around the garden, you will see the brown lizards, Leonardo and Lucy and perhaps, Sally, our pet squirrel.

At the garden gate, there is a pave stone pathway that curves around the entire garden and has eliminated all grass from the back. To the left is a terrace that takes you to the deck and Garden Room.  As you stroll down the pave stone path, notice you are in a deeply shaded area surrounded by plants on both sides such as Persicaria Dragons Blood, Ferns, Fire Spike, Garnet Oxalis, and Gold Dust Plant.  To the left you will see a zen garden with a Statue and bird bath.

The garden is mostly shady but as you curve around you enter a sunny area for perennials and roses.  Along here you will see Pink Skullcap, Firecracker Fern, Mexican Oregano, miniature Crepe Myrtle, Summer Asters, Powis Castle, Silver Germander, Lantana,  False Papyrus, Martha Gonzales Rose, Country Girl Chrysanthemums, and Mint Marigold, etc. You will notice the Garden House is located just behind this island bed. To the left is a large terrace for dining and entertaining.

You are continuing to curve around and are now entering a shady garden again.  In this area the temperature is ten to fifteen degrees cooler than any other part of the garden. In this shady area there is an arbor with Butterfly Vine, Columbine, Pink and Red Turk's Cap, small Sweet Olive Trees, and Shrimp Plant, etc. There are small terraces with statues as well as urns of Impatiens for color. To your left is a large circle of decomposed granite with native trees and Yaupon Holly and down the center of this circle is a path that leads you from the large terrace up to the deck.

You have curved around again and are now going up into a sun and shade area with Phlomis (Jerusalem Sage), Red and Yellow Barberry, Abelia, Salvia Greggii, Duchess de Brabant Rose, Chinese Variegated Privot, Saponaria, and Loreopetalum, etc.  On the left you pass by a bed of both yellow Rudbeckia Coneflower and purple Coneflower as well as a tall hot pink Hibiscus.

Just ahead you will enter a small terrace surrounded by beds of San Gabriel Nandina, Taro, Chocolate Plant, Fire Spike, Leopetulum, Stella d'ora Daylily, Aspidistra, and a beautiful Yew Tree.  This terrace is next to the deck and the  highlight of the terrace is the lovely Sweet Olive Tree with the aroma of apricots and vanilla.   

Come down from this terrace and turn to the right and you will enter another terrace with huge containers of trees and Firecracker Fern. This terrace has landscaped island beds which are in both sun and shade for a variety of plants. To the left is the large circle of decomposed granite and to the right above you is a glass Garden Room with a wrap-around deck that looks out over the garden. Perhaps a cold glass of sun tea could be enjoyed here. 

If you continue ahead, it will take you by more island beds and onto the large terrace, but if you turn slightly to the right, you will go around the Garden Room and onto another terrace with flower beds of variegated English ivy and other plants that appear to cool a hot summer day.

Continue on this terrace and it will take you back down and around to the gate.  Hope you enjoyed your stroll through our garden. Please come visit us again soon.