The area of the garden I’m sharing now on this Fall Tour is little seen because it’s incomplete. Not that any garden is ever ‘done’ or completed, however this part is has only ‘bones’ and is waiting for me to flesh out the details. Till now it did not seem too pressing because all the important plants were [...]
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FALL TOUR
Posted in Accessories, Camellias, Companion Planting, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Hydrangeas, Potager, Roses, Vegetable Garden, Viburnums, tagged cutting garden, design, garden bones, garden feature, garden Rooms, potager, Putti, veg garden, viburnum on October 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
FABULOUS FALL FRAGRANCE
Posted in Garden Design, Shrubs, tagged evergreen hedge, fragrance, Margaret Moseley, Michael Dirr, osmanthus aurantiacus, Osmanthus fragrans, Tea Olive on September 18, 2011 | 7 Comments »
It’s blooming…. As soon as I walked out the door I caught the fragrance. Osmanthus fragrans, known in the south as ‘ ’Tea Olive’. Tiny but abundant cream coloured blossoms emit the most remarkable and penetrating fragrance. This is a beautiful, pest free, evergreen shrub that matures at 10 to 15 feet, and blooms TWICE a year; [...]
A GARDENER’S DIARY
Posted in Garden Design, Garden Rooms, tagged A Gardener's Diary, Garden blog, Martha Tate on August 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
If you, like me,watched every episode of A GARDENER’S DIARY on HGTV (taped and TiVo them for future viewing) and lament the fact that it is no longer; you will be pleased to know that the blog GARDEN PHOTO OF THE DAY is written by Martha Tate, the creator /producer of the series. Martha features an incredible photo of [...]
A GARDENER’S DILEMMA
Posted in Bulbs, Companion Planting, Cutting flowers, Garden Design, Hydrangeas, tagged companion planting, cutting flowers, cutting garden, garden Rooms, hydrangeas, lilies on August 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Some areas of my garden are incomplete. The bones are all there, but the planting is far from ‘done’. For example, the lilies I have recently featured … are a perfect companion to Hydrangea paniculata … however, they are planted on either side of the bench in my cutting garden and not together. [...]
A GRACIOUS GARDEN
Posted in Cutting flowers, Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Outdoor Living Spaces, tagged cutting garden, Focal Point, garden design, garden Rooms, outdoor living spaces, retaining walls on July 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last week I mentioned my client the gracious Ms. C and her luxurious flower arrangements. Now lets take a look at her garden. Like so many homes here in the piedmont, the house was set into a slope which began immediately past the brick patio. High on one side… ( note patio in left corner) drop [...]
MAKING AN ENTRANCE
Posted in Focal Point, Garden Design on May 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
What are the elements that make this entrance so welcoming? The stone walls & arch certainly give it gravitas, the lush planting softens the hard surfaces… There is no gate, clearly we can enter… The pot, as focal point, arrests the eye, then the curved path pulls you in…don’t you want to see what [...]
LESSONS FROM CHARLESTON S.C.
Posted in Focal Point, Garden Design, Garden Rooms, Outdoor Living Spaces, tagged Charleston Garden Tour, design for small gardens, Focal Point, Formal gardens, garden design, garden Rooms, hardscape, Paving patterns on April 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
No cameras in the gardens! The only photography allowed was from the public sidewalk. Still there are many lessons to be learned. All the gardens are small, tiny in fact, some no larger than a postage stamp. In small gardens, design is more important than it is in larger landscapes; for here, there is a concentrated use of space. Also, because [...]
THE MEADOW…YET AGAIN
Posted in Companion Planting, Flowering Trees, Garden Design, Groundcovers, Shade Gardening, Wildflowers, tagged dogwoods, garden design, native phlox, trillium, wildflowers on April 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The meadow is once more looksing like an impressionist painting. Swaths of blue native phlox (Phlox divericata) make their way between the daffodil foliage and the ‘Wake Robin’ ( Trillium cuneatum) . The trees are now playing an important role, so the focus changes. This is The Meadow viewed from the driveway on [...]
A QUICK TOUR
Posted in Companion Planting, Garden Design, Groundcovers, Shade Gardening, tagged garden design, groundcovers, helleborus foetidus, helleborus orientalis. flowering quince, shade garden on March 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Spring is unfolding ……….. Suddenly, everything is so far along ! The trilliums are coming up. Flowering Quince In the Viburnum Court… Helleborus foetidus top & Helleborus orientalis above. All Nature’s Masterpieces. © All photos & text 2011
THE CUTTING GARDEN
Posted in Bulbs, Cutting flowers, Garden Design, Potager, tagged cut flowers, cutting garden, daffodils, narcissus on March 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The cutting garden is located adjacent to the potager. It was in fact where my husband attempted to grow melons for several seasons. I usurped the space when the ‘bones’ of the shade garden (Circle of Friends, Camellia Walk ) and the Viburnum Court, were planted. A cutting garden devoted to supplying [...]
A HOST OF GOLDEN DAFFODILS
Posted in Bulbs, Garden Design, winter garden, tagged bulbs, daffodils, Landscape design, landscape inspiration on February 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
“…A host, of golden daffodils…” “…beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” “They stretched in never-ending line………..” “And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.” My meadow… a landscape inspired by a poem. To hear Jeremy Irons recite Wordsworth’s poem… http://www.facebook.com/#!/BluestoneGarden © All photos 2011
DESIGN “HOW TO”
Posted in Garden Design, tagged garden design, Landscape design on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Donna, at Garden Walk Garden Talk has just completed a series which outlines in detail the design process. This series is so well done I wish I would have written it. Click below for a summary of the posts with a link to each. http://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2011/01/21/process-of-design-the-base-plan/ /http://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2011/01/22/process-of-design-site-analysis/ http://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2011/01/23/program-needs-process-of-design/ http://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2011/01/25/schematic-design-process-of-design/ http://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2011/01/27/plan-development-process-of-design/
MEANWHILE, IN THE GARDEN..
Posted in Camellias, Companion Planting, Flowering Trees, Garden Design, Groundcovers, Perennials, Shade Gardening, Shrubs, winter garden, tagged acorus gramineus 'ogon', Camellia, evergreen shrubs, garden design, helleborus, Prunus mume, winter garden on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On a tour of the garden today, signs of spring … The Meadow is coming alive.. Soon I’ll post the results of 13 years of rescuing daffs and trying to achieve the ‘English Thing’. Meanwhile the Winter garden is doing what it is supposed to and is at its peak….The “peak” lasts a [...]
MORE ON HELLEBORES
Posted in Garden Design, Groundcovers, Perennials, Shade Gardening, winter garden, tagged helleborus, perennials, shade gardening, winter garden on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I neglected to include a close up photo of the hellebore ( Helleborus orientalis) I featured in the last post… so here it is. There are many hellebore species (15 according to Armitage). I grow only the two common types successfully. The second one is the Bearsfoot Hellebore (Helleborus foetidus). This is the earliest hellebore to open in [...]
THE WINTER GARDEN
Posted in Camellias, Garden Design, Hydrangeas, winter garden, tagged camellias, garden design, hydrangea macrophylla, winter garden on January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With all the holiday activities over I finally got into the garden. What a relief! It is so quiet and peaceful, in stark contrast to the last weeks. It truly is my sanctuary… just as I planned it. Gardening in Georgia, one can have a winter garden that BLOOMS. From time to time a hard freeze will [...]
