Creating Ambiance with gardens3

Developing Ambiance With Gardens

Throughout his 40-year profession as a garden writer and photographer, Derek Fell has actually developed numerous garden spaces, many involving his better half Carolyn. The very best example of their work can be seen at their home, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, they have created more than twenty style locations, consisting of shade gardens, bright seasonal borders, tapestry gardens including trees and shrubs, a home garden, herb garden, cutting garden and an enthusiastic water garden.

Derek worked as a specialist on garden design to the White House throughout the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek designed Ford's 'Win' garden, following his 'Win Speech', encouraging the nation ten ways to fight inflation.

Many garden styles by Derek Fell have been carried out without examining the website. The great late architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed stunning homes for his clients, completely from photographs without the need for a site inspection.

Fell's garden areas have been featured in newspapers, magazines, books and also on television, including Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), Country Gardens, HGTV, QVC and PBS.

Derek has actually authored more than sixty books and garden calendars, including 550 Home Landscaping Concepts (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The Total Garden Preparation Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).

Suppress appeal and ambiance are very important to brighten up your propoerty or prepare it for sale. Feel free to ask Derek any garden associated concerns no matter how big or little.

SOME GARDEN TYPES

Water Garden. Water is the music of nature. It can be fooled over stones, cascaded from a great height so its crashes onto rocks. It can fall in a solid sheet or as silver threads. A stunning water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be located in sunlight or shade. The water garden shown here lies at Cedaridge Farm. It includes a swimming pool for dipping, and it includes both a collection of koi and sturdy water lilies. A popular water garden design features a koi pool fed by a series of waterfalls, and the water re-circulated through filters to keep the water clear.

Warm Seasonal Border. This can be official or informal, square, rectangular, round and kidney shaped, in the form of an island bed or backed against an ornamental hedge, wall or fence. Plants can be selected to produce a parade of color through all the seasons, or focused for a specific season. Color styles can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for example all white - best for a wedding), or it can feature an Impressionist color consistency, such as yellow and purple; orange and blue; red, pink and silver; blue, pink and white; even black and white or black and orange (one of Monet's favorites). A popular seasonal garden design is two parallel border with a turf course leading to a centerpiece such as a sculpture or gazebo.

Tropical Garden. You do not need to reside in a frost-free location to have a beautiful tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we have 2 - one is a homage to the design viewpoint of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who designed significant tropical gardens around Rio. It remains in a gently shaded location and features plants that are durable (like 'Amount & Substance' hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that hurt (like banana trees and tree ferns) that either need moving inside throughout winter season or can be discarded like annuals at the end of the season. Our second tropical space is an outdoor patio with tropical plants grown in containers.

Shade Gardens. We design 2 type of shade gardens - one where the plants offer mainly foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone lawn), and plants that flower well (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a mix of the two.

Woodland Garden. Whether you have existing woodland or you need to develop a woodland from scratch, the outcome can be astonishing. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that offer fall color or evergreens that stay green all winter season, or a mix. At Cedaridge we made a 'cathedral' garden where the existing trees are cut high so the trunks appear like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to satisfy overhead like the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we supply two more layers of interest, at ground level and the under-story.

Vegetable Garden. We can design you an easy-care garden of raised beds where veggies are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for decorative effect. We can offer the prepare for a garden that was authorized for the White house throughout the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden consultant. Derek Fell's book, "Vegetables - How to Select, Grow & Enjoy", won a best book award from the Garden Writers Association.

Herb Garden. The herb garden at Cedaridge Farm is a 'quadrant design', feature in many calendars and books, consisting of Derek Fell's 'Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We can also supply a cartwheel design or a parterre herb garden for abundant harvests of fresh herbs. The Herb Garden can also do double-duty as a vegetable garden.

Cutting Garden. The cutting garden at Cedaridge Farm includes bulbs such as tulips and daffodils for spring, and ever-blooming annuals to follow the bulbs so armloads of flowers can be collected from April through October.

Victorian Garden. A garden with romantic overtones! Picture a white gazebo framed by primarily white flowers for a wedding in the family. Or select from among numerous color harmonies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.

Cottage Garden. You don't need a home to have a home garden. But if you do, such as a guest cottage, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, plus those wonderful English home garden plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to consist of plants to bring in butterflies and hummingbirds.

Stream Garden. Fortunate you if you have an existing stream to be landscaped. At Cedaridge Farm we have a stream, but when we moved here it was overgrown with toxin ivy and brambles. Today it is criss-crossed with bridges, and beds of moisture-loving plants like astilbe and water iris. If you don't have a stream, but would like one, we can develop a design where the water is re-circulated along one that's manufactured but looks natural.

Orchard. You do not need a lot of area for an efficient orchard. By making the best options, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered against fences and walls to save space. Peaches and apples can be trained over arbors. Just a few plants of small fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be highly efficient.

Bog Garden. Perfect for soils that tend to stay moist all season, bog gardens can be extremely colorful and highly creative, including stepping stones and bridges to cross wet areas, and growing a few of nature's most varied plant households, such as water iris, Japanese primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.

Japanese Garden. The issue with many Japanese gardens is a tendency to use pseudo-Japanese components such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has actually twice taken a trip to Japan, has written acclaimed short articles about Japanese garden design, and has the experience to design authentic-looking areas in the Japanese tradition using aspects of Zen or Feng Shui, or a mix of the two disciplines to develop a wonderful area.

Italian Garden. Although Italian gardens can be highly extravagant, needing steep slopes to achieve the best effect, like the Villa d'Este, near Rome, little spaces can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell has not just went to a few of the finest Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coast, and Boboli ignoring Florence, he has actually explored and photographed the Vatican Gardens.

French Official Garden. The intricate style of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond your methods, but components of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be integrated in small areas.

Monet's Garden. This beautiful artist's garden north of Paris includes more than a hundred unique planting concepts to create what Monet considered his biggest masterpiece. Moreover, his planting ideas have certainly influenced more new garden design than any other garden. Monet's arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches resulting in the entrance of his house, and his color consistencies are just some examples of Monet's innovation that people today like to imitate.

Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's garden, in Provence, is composed mainly of trees and shrubs, not just as a labor conserving device, but to provide a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf texture and leaf shapes. What could be more appealing than to watch out of a window of your home at a rich foliage panorama, consisting of all tones of green from light green to dark-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?

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