Tag: Designed Garden Journey
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Irene’s Storm Tossed Combinations
Monday, August 29th–the day after Irene gusted, blew, and poured–I snapped this photo of my back shade garden. Storm tossed, but still intact and lovely, the flowers of the hosta (lavendar) and the ligularia dentata ‘Othello’ (yellow)– are lovely in combination. Yet it’s the foliage of all the plants–ferns, hostas, daphne, ladies’ mantle–that really makes…
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Summer Sea of Mint or Natural Herb Garden
Mint creates a lovely ground cover, flowers profusely mid-summer, and is great in my watermelon salad! (Mint is the lavender spiked plant growing in the foreground).
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Woodland Garden in Process
In the midst of construction, this woodland garden shows it’s bones. The field-stone stepper path, the boulder marking the steps to the lower area, the area laid-out for the BBQ pad of granite squares, and the first large drifts of ferns and lily-of-the-valley shape the spaces and create texture and movement . What you don’t…
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Busy Season, Such a Beautiful Spring to enjoy Flowering Trees
Forgot to publish this photo of the landscape I designed that includes the existing flowering trees leading the eye up the drive. Working with the client I created new driveway perennial bed for waves of seasonal color. The Spring bulbs that you see flowering in harmony above is the first wave of the season. Now in early July the beds are filled…
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Roses! Peonies! Dogwood! Oh, MY!
I designed and managed the installation of this landscape (gate, steppers, planting combinations, lighting and more) several years ago. It’s matured quite nicely and I’m very happy with my design and happily so are my clients. Besides the peonies, roses, and dogwood, catmint, and ladies mantle combine for this lovely seasonal ‘wave of color’.
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Just Completed– A Garden to Heal
Gardens are many things to many people. This one was designed as a healing garden. The plan included favorite plants, grade changes (the newly seeded lawn area was a low point and now higher flows with the existing lawn grade and the ground sloped away in planting area) provided by a low stone wall on the back side.…
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Dianthus Joy
The large mass of pink dianthus greeted me recently. The first photo shows it as part of the garden as a whole–notice the way the green Japanese maple foliage and silvery green nepeta foliage masses balance the spread of the dianthus. Also, the bit of purple foliage of the heuchera echos the red side of the color wheel…
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Pansies & Pussywillow Brighten the Early Spring Garden
Planting the large containers in this city garden/outdoor room I designed and installed last year brightens the early spring garden. Any day now the spring flowering bulbs will bloom in bursts of color. Soon after the earliest flowering shrubs will add to the chorus. The hellebore are blooming now. The blue, white, dark pink pansies highlighted with the pussywillow…
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Pattern and Texture found in Golden Gate Bridge Gardens
Golden Gate Bridge’s remarkably beautiful Southeast Side Gardens overlooking the bridge filled my eyes with plant combinations and filled my soul with textural details. (You know the phrase, “God is in the details”?) The leaf pattern of a plant unknown to me (it could native to South America, South Africa, or Europe’s Mediterranean Sea Area) fascinated and…
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Will these Late Bloomers Last ’til Thanksgiving?
The bench always invites no matter the season and also frames the garden view here. The plantings embrace and these ‘Clara Curtis’ daisies romp freely in the garden. Indeed, plant them with plenty of room and the intent to control them in early spring by pulling out the expanding ones. I’m enjoying them daily and…